Life During The War
When not in London and for the duration of the London Blitz, the Cambridges sent Lady Mary to stay with her maternal grandparents, Captain the Hon. Osmond Westenra Hastings (1873–1933) and his wife Mary Caroline Campbell Tarratt (died 1955), at Hodcott House, their country house near West Ilsley in Berkshire. Near her were her cousins the Yorks and Harewoods, who were staying at Windsor Castle. Her parents remained in London, as her father was a director of Coutts & Company, a banking firm, in the city. When Mary was older, toward the end of the war, she became a volunteer nurse in the blitzed area of London.
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