Frances Shand Kydd

The Honourable Frances Shand Kydd
Shand Kydd in 2002
Born	Frances Ruth Roche (1936-01-20)20 January 1936 Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Died	3 June 2004(2004-06-03) (aged 68) Seil, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Resting place	Pennyfuir Cemetery, Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Title	Viscountess Althorp
Spouses	John Spencer, Viscount Althorp ​ ​ (m. 1954; div. 1969)​ Peter Shand Kydd ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1990)​
Children	Lady Sarah McCorquodale Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes John Spencer Diana, Princess of Wales Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
Parents	Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (father) Ruth Sylvia Gill (mother)

Frances Ruth Shand Kydd (previously Spencer, née Roche; 20 January 1936 – 3 June 2004) was the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She was the maternal grandmother of William, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, respectively first and fifth in the line of succession to the British throne. Following her divorce from Viscount Althorp in 1969, and Diana's death in 1997, Shand Kydd devoted the final years of her life to Catholic charity work following her conversion to Catholicism.