Early Life
Frances Ruth Roche was born in Park House, on the royal estate at Sandringham, Norfolk. Her father was Edmund Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI and the elder son of the American heiress Frances Work and her first husband, the 3rd Baron Fermoy. Her mother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy DCVO, was a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother).
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