Edmund James Burke Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy (20 March 1939 - 1984) was a British peer

Peerage

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. He was a maternal uncle of Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales

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 and attended her wedding to The Prince of Wales

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 in 1981.

Edmund was the only son of Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy and his wife, Ruth Sylvia Gill

Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy

Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, DCVO, OBE, was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the maternal grandmother of Lady Diana Spencer, later Princess of Wales....

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He was married to Lavinia Frances Elizabeth Pitman (a descendent of Sir Isaac Pitman) and they had four children:

• Frances Caroline Burke Roche (31 March 1965)
• Elizabeth Burke Roche (27 March 1966 - 2 April 1966)
• Maurice Burke Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy (11 October 1967)
• Edmund Hugh Burke Roche (5 February 1972)

His brother-in-law, the lieutenant-colonel (John) Hugh Pitman, was married to Rosemary Dickinson, who married Andrew Parker Bowles

Andrew Parker Bowles

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, the former husband of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, in 1996.