Personal Life
Keppel's father was a Lieutenant Commander in the Fleet Air Arm, who moved with the family to various naval postings around Britain until they settled in London when she was 17. Although she took A-levels and completed a secretarial course, she was groomed for marriage, rather than a career. Her first husband was Desmond Corcoran, an art dealer. The couple went on to have three children, Sibylla, Alexander, and Rosie, but divorced in 1980. In 1985 she married comedy script writer Neil Shand. They separated in 1987.
Keppel is the granddaughter of Walter, 9th Earl of Albemarle. Her great-grandfather, the 8th Earl was brother-in-law of Alice Keppel, the mistress of King Edward VII and was the great-uncle of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The Duchess of Cornwall is therefore her second cousin once removed. Interestingly, through the noble lineage of her aforementioned grandfather, her genealogy can be traced back to Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England.
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