Countess Percy, formerly Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond and later Duchess of Northumberland. She married Earl Percy in 1911. He succeeded to the dukedom in 1918. Pictured in The Sketch in 1914 who describes her as a giver of voluntary aid and a war worker. She was President of he Morayshire branch of the Red Cross Society, Vice-President of a branch in Kent and author of a book on 'Voluntary Aid.' She was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother from 1937 to 1964 and was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1938.
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Countess Percy, formerly Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond and later Duchess of Northumberland. She married Earl Percy in 1911. He succeeded to the dukedom in 1918. Pictured in The Sketch in 1914 who describes her as a giver of voluntary aid and a war worker. She was President of he Morayshire branch of the Red Cross Society, Vice-President of a branch in Kent and author of a book on 'Voluntary Aid.' She was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother from 1937 to 1964 and was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1938. Date: 1914