Career
The Duchess was one of three extramarital daughters of Muriel Perry. The girls" only visitor was a man they knew as "Uncle Bodger", who would come several times a year with presents. Diana"s birth was never registered and they were all given their mother"s surname.
On his succession to the dukedom in 1963, she became and spouse of the wealthiest man in Britain.
The marriage was childless, however, and on her husband"s death in 1967, the title devolved upon her brother-in-law Robert. The widowed duchess started travelling around the globe, visiting South America several times.
The Duchess, who had moved back to Gloucestershire on her husband"s death, died on 30 May 1990 at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, following a stroke. Sally Grosvenor,, is buried in the churchyard of Eccleston Church near Eaton Hall, Cheshire.