Frances Shand Kydd

Frances Shand Kydd
Shand Kydd in 2002
Born
Frances Ruth Roche

(1936-01-20)20 January 1936
Died3 June 2004(2004-06-03) (aged 68)
Resting placePennyfuir Cemetery, Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
TitleViscountess Althorp
Spouses
  • (m. 1954; div. 1969)
  • (m. 1969; div. 1990)
Children
Parents

Frances Ruth Shand Kydd (previously Spencer, née Roche; 20 January 1936 – 3 June 2004) was the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She was the maternal grandmother of William, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, respectively first and fifth in the line of succession to the British throne. Following her divorce from Viscount Althorp in 1969, and Diana's death in 1997, Shand Kydd devoted the final years of her life to Catholic charity work following her conversion to Catholicism.