Frances Campbell-Preston

Dame Frances Olivia Campbell-Preston (; 2 September 1918 – 22 November 2022) was a British courtier and author who served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1965 to 2002. Family and education Frances Olivia Grenfell was the daughter of Arthur Morton Grenfell, a grandson of the businessman Pascoe St Leger Grenfell, and his second wife, Hilda Margaret Lyttleton (daughter of The Hon. Sir Neville Lyttelton), and her uncles included the politician Cecil Alfred Grenfell and the soldier Francis Octavius Grenfell. She was the sister-in-law of the actress and comedian Joyce Grenfell and aunt of the politician William Waldegrave, and her brother-in-law was Lord Ballantrae, Governor-General of New Zealand. She was educated firstly at a Parents' National Educational Union school, whose teaching was based on the ideas of Charlotte Mason. She then attended St Paul's Girls' School in London. On 2 December 1938, she married Lt.-Col. (George) Patrick Campbell-Preston (1911–1960), the son of Col. Robert William Pigott Clarke Campbell-Preston and Mary Augusta Margaret Nicol Thorne and nephew of Gen. Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne. Patrick, an officer in the Black Watch at the time of their marriage, was an equerry to Lord Tweedsmuir during the 1930s and was later imprisoned at Colditz Castle during the Second World War. He died in a car crash in 1960, after he and Frances had had four children.