Susan Hussey, Baroness Hussey of North Bradley, DCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 (born 1 May 1939) is a Woman of the Bedchamber

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 to Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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She was born Lady Susan Katherine Waldegrave, the fifth and youngest daughter of the 12th Earl Waldegrave

Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave

Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave KG GCVO TD , known as Viscount Chewton from 1933 to 1936, was a British peer and agriculturist....

. On 25 April 1959 she married Marmaduke Hussey

Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley

Marmaduke James Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1986 to 1996, fulfilling two terms in that role....

 (later Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC

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) and they had two children, James Arthur (born 15 August 1961) and Katherine Elizabeth (born 1 February 1964).

Her husband was created a life peer

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 as Baron Hussey of North Bradley in 1996.

Lady Hussey of North Bradley is the sister of the 13th Earl Waldegrave

James Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave

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 and the life peer and former Conservative

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 Cabinet Minister the Lord Waldegrave of North Hill

William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill

William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC , is an English Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997 and is a Life Member of the Tory Reform Group. He is now a life peer. Lord Waldegrave is also the Chairman of the Rhodes Trust and the Chairman of...

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She is known as The Lady Susan Hussey in her capacity as Woman of the Bedchamber

Woman of the Bedchamber

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, and is a godmother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

Her husband, Lord Hussey, died on December 27th, 2006, at the age of 83.