Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: LVCL-BWG
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 3449
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Famous Historical Figure
• Group: Head of Line - Elder John Strong
• Birth Registration: Between 1 Apr 1885 and 30 Jun 1885, Chelsea Registration District, Middlesex, England; Vol. 1a, p. 398
• Death Registration: Between 1 Jul 1955 and 30 Sep 1955, Kings Lynn Registration District, Norfolk, England; Vol. 4b, p. 357

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

4th Baron Fermoy. Born Edmund Maurice Burke Roche the son of James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy and Frances Ellen Work. He succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Fermoy in 1920 upon his father's death. He married Ruth Gill in September 1931, and with her had three children. His second daughter, Frances Ruth, would become the wife of the 8th Earl Spencer; their fourth child was Lady Diana, later styled as Princess of Wales. He died at age 70 and his son Edmund, succeeded to his titles.

Bio by: Iola

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LVCL-BWG

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3449

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
Famous People

Group:
Descendants of Elder John Stong

Birth Registration:
Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, mother maiden name Work, was born.

Death Registration:
Edmund Maurice Roche, age 70, died.

Edmund married Ruth Sylvia Gill, Lady Fermoy on 17 Sep 1931 in Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Ruth was born on 2 Oct 1908 in Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died on 6 Jul 1993 in Belgravia, Middlesex, England; was buried after 6 Jul 1993 in Saint Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Sandringham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: LVKW-PHK
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 8875847
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Head of Line - Elder John Strong
• Birth Registration: Between 1 Jan 1936 and 31 Mar 1936, Freebridge Lynn Registration District, Norfolk, England; Vol. 4b, p. 344

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

English Nobility. The mother of Princess Diana Spencer, she was born Frances Ruth Burke Roche in Sandringham England and was the daughter of the Fourth Baron Fermoy. Her mother, Lady Ruth Fermoy, was a confidante and lady in waiting to the late Queen Mother.

Shand Kydd married Edward John Spencer, 12 years her senior, in 1954 at Westminster Abbey.

They had three daughters —  Diana was the youngest —  and two sons. The marriage foundered in 1967 when she fell in love with Peter Shand Kydd, a married wallpaper heir, and the couple divorced in 1969.

Shand Kydd remarried in 1969 when the future princess was 6 years old.

Shand-Kydd is survived by son, Charles, Earl Spencer and daughters Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McQuorquodale. Her stepson, Adam Shand Kydd, 49, died from an overdose of sleeping pills in Cambodia in April 2004.

Bio by: Just another taphophile

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LVKW-PHK

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8875847

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
Descendants of Elder John Stong

Birth Registration:
Frances R Roche, mother maiden name Gill, was born.

Frances married Edward John Spencer, Eighth Earl Spencer of Althorp on 1 Jun 1954 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England, and was divorced in Apr 1969. Edward was born on 24 Jan 1924 in Bayswater, Westminster, Middlesex, England; died on 29 Mar 1992 in London, Middlesex, England; was buried after 29 Mar 1992 in Saint Mary the Virgin with Saint John Churchyard, Great Brington, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: L5XN-6LV
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 1888
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Famous Historical Figure
• Group: Head of Line - Elder John Strong
• Birth Registration: Between 1 Jul 1961 and 30 Sep 1961, Kings Lynn Registration District, Norfolk, England; Vol. 4b, p. 932

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Social Reformer and British Royalty. Born The Honourable Diana Frances Spencer, she was the fourth child, third daughter, of Edward John Spencer and Frances Ruth Burke Roche, then Viscount and Viscountess Althorp.

Her parents separated in 1967 and were divorced in 1969.

She was a member of an aristocratic English family that had served the crown for generations. Her father had been an equerry (an officer charged with supervision of the horses belonging to a royal household) to King George VI, father of Queen Elizabeth, from 1950-1952 and also to the Queen herself for the first two years of her reign. Her childhood playmates included the Queen's sons, the Princes Andrew and Edward. Upon the death of her grandfather, the 7th Earl Spencer, in 1975,

Diana inherited the title of "Lady" and moved to Althorp, a stately mansion built in 1508 in the English Midlands. It was there where she struck up a conversation with Prince Charles during a shoot in November 1977. There wasn't talk of a relationship between Charles and Diana until late-1980, when Diana worked as a part-time kindergarten teacher in London. It was during this time that the media interest in Diana intensified. She would be trailed by photographers for the rest of her life.

The engagement of Lady Diana and Prince Charles was announced on February 24, 1981, and they were married at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981, amidst members of nearly every royal house in the world and a TV and radio audience of 750 million.

This fulfilled a Spencer family dream: An ancestor, also named Lady Diana Spencer 1710-1735, almost married Frederick, Prince of Wales, in the early-1700s. The match was encouraged by her grandmother, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, but was eventually broken up by the wishes of King George II.

Upon her marriage, Diana's full title was "Her Royal Highness, The Princess Charles, Princess of Wales, Countess of Chester, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Carrick, Baroness of Renfrew, Lady of the Isles, and Princess of Scotland." Although the style was incorrect, she was popularly referred to as "Princess Diana."

Diana and Charles had two children: Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, born in 1982, and Prince Henry Charles Albert David, born in 1984.

Diana was famous for her groundbreaking fashion choices, but she also broke barriers in the late 1980s when she was the first celebrity to be photographed shaking hands with an AIDS patient without a glove. She touched leprosy patients in the poorest parts of the world without concern for her own health.

Diana and Charles separated in December 1992 and were divorced on August 28, 1996, upon which Queen Elizabeth II stripped her of the title of "Her Royal Highness" and decreed she be addressed in the future as "Diana, Princess of Wales."

Upon her separation, and after her divorce, Diana redefined herself: She cut the number of charities she supported to a handful and, in the last year of her life, became passionate about banning antipersonnel land mines in war-weary Third World Countries.

She died in an automobile accident in the underpass of the Place D'Alma Bridge in Paris, France, shortly after midnight on Sunday, August 31, 1997, along with Dodi Fayed, son of Harrods Department Store owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, and driver Henri Paul. A fourth passenger, Dodi's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, survived the crash, but required extensive plastic surgery for his injuries. The Flame of Liberty sculpture near the site of the accident serves as an unofficial monument to Diana. There is also a memorial to both Diana and Dodi Fayed erected at Harrods Department Store in London.

Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L5XN-6LV

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1888

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
Famous People

Group:
Descendants of Elder John Stong

Birth Registration:
Diana F Spencer, mother maiden name Roche, was born.

Diana married HM King C.P.A.G. Windsor, King Charles III of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Knight of the Garter [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

W.A.P.L. married HRH Princess C.E.". Middleton, Princess of Wales [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

H.C.A.D.". married R.M. Markle, Duchess of Sussex [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]