Background
Her mother died in 1906 when she was only two years old. Her father"s Indian servants called her "Baba Sahib", "the Viceroy"s baby", and she was thereafter best known as "Baba".
Her mother died in 1906 when she was only two years old. Her father"s Indian servants called her "Baba Sahib", "the Viceroy"s baby", and she was thereafter best known as "Baba".
She was named after her godmother, Queen Alexandra and her place of conception, Naldehra, India. She and her two older sisters were memorialized by Anne de Courcy in "The Viceroy"s Daughters: the Lives of the Curzon Sisters."
Alexandra was conceived in July 1903 at Naldehra, 25 km from Shimla, perhaps after a game of high altitude golf, and was named after that place. She was dubbed the "prettiest debutante of the 1922 season".
She was the first love of Prince George, Duke of Kent.
She was one of a handful of witnesses to Edward"s marriage to Wallis Simpson. She had affairs with Jock Whitney, Michael Lubbock, Walter Monckton and Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham.
The main thrust of Baba"s later life was her tireless efforts for the Save the Children Fund, a commitment that lasted for more than 40 years. Lady Alexandra joined the Save the Children Fund in 1950 and was very active doing fund-raising in London.
Later she became chairman of the Overseas Relief and Welfare Committee, which controls all overseas work of the fund.
In 1974 she was elected vice-president She was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire for these efforts in 1975. She died on 7 August 1995 at age 91 at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, Oxfordshire.