Anne Liddell-Grainger

Anne Liddell-Grainger

Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell-Grainger (née Abel Smith) (born 28 July 1932) is the mother of British politician Ian Liddell-Grainger and the daughter of Lady May Abel Smith. Her maternal grandparents were Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and H.R.H.Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.

She was born in Kensington Palace, the daughter of Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith and Lady May. She married David Liddell-Grainger, a Scottish politician, on 14 December 1957 and they were divorced in 1981. Anne later became a devout Christian, and served as a missionary in Africa.

They had five children:

• Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (born 23 February 1959)
• Charles Montagu Liddell-Grainger (born 23 July 1960)
• Simon Rupert Liddell-Grainger (born 28 December 1962)
• Alice Mary Liddell-Grainger (born 3 March 1965)
• Malcolm Henry Liddell-Grainger (born 14 December 1967)

Mrs Liddell-Grainger is in the line of succession to the British Throne as a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.