1927 - 2013 (85 years)
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Name |
Anne Mary Theresa Constable-Maxwell [2] |
Birth |
30 Aug 1927 |
London |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
8 Apr 2013 |
Person ID |
I110185 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
14 Apr 2013 |
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Notes |
- Anne, Duchess of Norfolk , who has died aged 85, was a leading figure in the British hospice movement.
An essentially shy woman who had begun her adult life as an Army wife, she hated the conspicuousness that attended her rank as a duchess, but resolved to use her position to do some good in the world, founding the charity Help the Hospices in 1984. From small beginnings it now represents and supports more than 200 local hospices across Britain, and offers a range of education and training courses for professionals working in palliative care.
... She was born Anne Mary Teresa Constable-Maxwell in London on August 30 1927, the eldest daughter of Wing-Commander Gerald Constable-Maxwell, a Knight of Malta and a Papal Chamberlain. He was descended from the Barons Herries, and she was therefore a distant cousin of the 16th Duke of Norfolk. Her mother, Carolyn, was American , and to escape the Blitz, Anne and her sisters were sent to the United States...
She adored America, and on returning to England in her late teens initially found life difficult as she worked on her mother's watercress farm at Alresford in Hampshire. A few years later she was on a trip to Hawaii when she encountered Miles Fitzalan-Howard, a career Army officer who would later inherit two baronies and a dukedom. They married at the Brompton Oratory in Knightsbridge in 1949, when he was 34, she 22.
The couple bought Bacres ? a house at Hambleden, near Henley-on-Thames ? and embarked on the peripatetic Army life. When Miles served as Head of the British Military Mission to Russian Forces in Germany (BRIXMIS) in the late 1950s , Anne took the opportunity to become a prolific collector of Meissen porcelain.
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