Background
Being a first cousin of Elizabeth II, Rhodes shares half her ancestry with the Queen, including several notable peers.
Being a first cousin of Elizabeth II, Rhodes shares half her ancestry with the Queen, including several notable peers.
Mrs Rhodes, is a first cousin of Elizabeth World War II Margaret Elphinstone. Less than a year older than the future queen, she was a frequent playmate of the young Princess Elizabeth. During the Second World War she lived at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and took a secretarial course.
On 20 November 1947 she was a bridesmaid to Princess Elizabeth.
They have one son. She remarried G. V. Charles Cope in 1986 Andrew James Downing Strickland-Skailes (1980) Victoria Ann Rhodes (27 September 1953), a god-daughter of Queen Elizabeth World War II Married Nicholas Deans in 1974 Simon John Gravenor Rhodes (22 February 1957), a god-son of Princess Margaret.
Married Susan Simon in 1983 Michael Andrew Gravenor Rhodes (8 June 1960) During World World War II she worked as a secretary for MI6. In the run-up to the Queen"s 80th birthday in April 2006, Rhodes gave an interview to the British Broadcasting Corporation in which she confirmed that, in her own opinion and despite several rumours, the Queen would not abdicate. Her autobiography, The Final Curtsey, was published in 2011.
She was the subject of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Desert Island Discs on 3 June 2012.