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The Queen's Maids of Honour Posted by The Royal Watcher on April 20, 2020, 10:12 am After listening to this wonderful interview with five out of the Queen's six Maids-of-Hour, I was delighted to find this magnificent photograph of some of them and the current Duke and Duchess of Devonshire taken in 1983. I can identify Lady Anne Glenconner (wearing the Tiara later worn by her daughter), Lady Rosemary Muir, and Lady Mary Baillie-Hamilton, and I think the marvellously bejewelled lady is the Baroness Willoughby de Eresby though I am unsure! SANDRA LOUSADA

Re: The Queen's Maids of Honour Posted by Beth on April 20, 2020, 5:22 pm, in reply to "The Queen's Maids of Honour" Fabulous photo thank you The Royal Watcher! I think you are correct and that the lady so bedecked in diamonds is the Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. Ursula has a small photo of her wearing the tiara and that interesting corsage jewel as a choker on her page about the tiara. See Royal Magazin at https://royal-magazin.de/england/cholmondeley-heathcote/heathcote-tiara-diamonds-cholomondeley.htm I wonder if the tall, blond lady wearing the choker on the right hand side of the photo is Lady Jane Stewart, later Lady Jane Rayne and now married to Robert Lacey? See the photo of her in June 1982 at this site https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-photo-Lady-Jane-Rayne/dp/B07GY476PX

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