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

Lady May Abel Smith

Lady May Abel Smith born Princess May of Teck was a descendant of the British Royal Family, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. From her birth, she was known as Princess May of Teck, a title in the Kingdom of Württemberg...

. Her maternal grandparents were Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone , was a close relative of the shared British and Canadian royal family, as well as a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the...

 and H.R.H.Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria...

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She was born in Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace

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, the daughter of Colonel

Colonel

Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...

 Sir Henry Abel Smith

Henry Abel Smith

Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith KCMG KCVO DSO was a British Army officer and a Governor of Queensland.-Biography:He was born in London, on 8 March 1900, the son of Francis Abel Smith and wife Madeline St. Maur Seymour...

 and Lady May. She married David Liddell-Grainger

David Liddell-Grainger

David Ian Liddell-Grainger KStJ, DL, FSA , a former Scottish politician, was the son of Henry Liddell-Grainger and Lady Muriel Felicia Vere Bertie, daughter of Montague Bertie, 12th Earl of Lindsey....

, a Scottish

Scotland

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 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

Line of succession to the British Throne

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 as a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

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Ancestry