Lady Elizabeth Basset
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Lady Elizabeth Basset, DCVO (née Legge; 5 March 1908 – 30 November 2000), was an English author and courtier.
Biography
Basset was born at 8 Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge,[1] the second daughter of the 7th Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Ruperta Wynn-Carrington, daughter of the Marquess of Lincolnshire.[2] She was educated at home.[3]
On 31 October 1931, she married Ronald Lambert Basset (1898–1972), senior representative of the ancient Basset family of Tehidy in Cornwall. They had two children, industrialist Bryan Ronald Basset Template:Post-nominals (1932–2010) and Peter Francis Basset (1935–1954).[2] During the Second World War, she ran a small farm in North Devon.[3]
In 1959, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, asked Basset to be a Woman of the Bedchamber.[4] She held that position until 1981. She was active as a Lady-in-Waiting from 1982 to 1993. She retired at the age of 85.[3]
She was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1976 and a dame of the same order in 1989.[2]
Lady Elizabeth authored a devotional book, Love Is My Meaning, and four anthologies.[3]
Lady Elizabeth Basset died in London in 2000, aged 92.[5]
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