Anne Liddell-Grainger

Who is Anne Liddell-Grainger?

Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell-Grainger is the mother of British politician Ian Liddell-Grainger and the daughter of Lady May Abel Smith. Her maternal grandparents were Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.

She was born in Kensington Palace, the daughter of Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith and Lady May Abel Smith. She married David Liddell-Grainger, a Scottish 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

⁕Charles Montagu Liddell-Grainger

⁕Simon Rupert Liddell-Grainger

⁕Alice Mary Liddell-Grainger

⁕Malcolm Henry Liddell-Grainger

Mrs Liddell-Grainger is in the line of succession to the British Throne as a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.