Lady Elizabeth Cavendish

Who is Lady Elizabeth Cavendish?

Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish CVO was a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth II and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret from the late-1940s until the latter's death in 2002 .

Lady Elizabeth was the daughter of Edward Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington and his wife, Mary née Gascoyne-Cecil. She was born three days after Princess Elizabeth of York was born in 1926.

It is believed she introduced Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1951 and although she herself never married, Elizabeth Cavendish did form a close relationship with the writer and future Poet Laureate, John Betjeman that same year and was called by Betjeman's daughter, Candida, her father's 'beloved second wife'.