Early Life
Alice Frederica Edmonstone (known to her family as "Freddie") was born on 29 April 1868 in Strathblane, Scotland to Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet, and Mary Elizabeth Edmonstone, née Parsons, of Woolwich Dockyard. Her father was the 4th Baronet Edmonstone and a retired Admiral in the Royal Navy; her grandfather had been Governor of the Ionian Islands. Keppel grew up in Scotland, at Duntreath Castle, Loch Lomond. Duntreath Castle had been the Edmonstones' home since the 14th century, when they acquired it and its land as a wedding present of King Robert III of Scotland to his daughter Mary. Keppel was the youngest of one brother and seven sisters. Uninterested in her sisters because of the age differences between her and them, she was inseparable from her brother, "beloved Archie".
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