Anne Liddell-Grainger


Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell-Grainger, Baroness of Ayton is the mother of British politician Ian Liddell-Grainger. Her maternal grandparents were Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.
She was born in Kensington Palace, the daughter of Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith and Lady May Abel Smith.

Marriage and issue

She married David Liddell-Grainger, a Scottish politician, on 14 December 1957. They divorced in 1981.
They had five children and eight grandchildren:
Mrs Liddell-Grainger later became a devout Christian, and served as a missionary in Africa. She settled in Kennington, south London, where she is engaged in Christian charity work. She is in the line of succession to the British Throne as a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She is a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Ancestry