Elizabeth Basset

Short Name: Elizabeth Basset
Full Name: Basset, Elizabeth
Birth Year: 1908
Death Year: 2000

Lady Elizabeth Legge Basset March 5, 1908 to William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Ruperta Wynn-Carington. Basset had a deep faith and she compiled five anthologies of prayers and poems. She served as lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother from 1959 to 1993 and was a reassuring presence and friend to the Queen. She died in 2000.

Dianne Shapiro, from Obituary, "The Telegraph," Dec 5, 2000 and The Peerage (www.thepeerage.com) retrieved 4-14-2018


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