Public Roles
- The Duchess is the founder of the Pushkin Prizes. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for her work with the Pushkin Trust.
- The Duchess is the Honorary Secretary of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma & Transformation in Omagh, County Tyrone, site of an 1998 Real IRA bombing that left 29 people dead (one of whom was pregnant with twins). She is also the patron of the Omagh Community Youth Choir, founded in the aftermath of 1998.
- The Duchess is the House Patron of Abercorn House at Cambridge House Grammar School, Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Read more about this topic: Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess Of Abercorn
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