Lettice Mildred Ashley-Cooper

Lady Lettice Mildred Mary Ashley-Cooper OStJ (12 February 1911 – 24 November 1990) was a British aristocrat, socialite, and airwoman. One of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s, she became a Flight Officer of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. Biography Lady Lettice Mildred Mary Ashley-Cooper was born on 12 February 1911, the daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury and Constance Sibell Grosvenor. In 1936 her name was linked with the name of Edward VIII as a possible future wife; the King had declared that the future queen had to be "English, good, beautiful and a sportswoman", and the newspaper identified four names: Lady Anne Hope, daughter of the viceroy of India; Lady Mary Grosvenor, daughter of the Duke of Westminster; Lady Angela Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sister of the Duchess of Gloucester; and Lady Lettice Ashley-Cooper. During World War II she was a Flight Officer of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, promoted to Corporal in charge of the Orderly Room.