Alexandra Naldera Curzon

Lady Alexandra Curzon CBE
Cover of 'The Viceroy's Daughters ...' showing Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon
Born	Alexandra Naldera Curzon 20 March/April 1904
Died	7 August 1995(1995-08-07) (aged 91) John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Spouse(s)	Edward Dudley Metcalfe
Children	3
Parent(s)	George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston
Relatives	Mary Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale (sister) Lady Cynthia Mosley (sister)

Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon, CBE (20 March/April 1904 – 7 August 1995), was the third daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Viceroy of India, and Lord Curzon's first wife, the American mercantile heiress, Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (née Leiter). 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. Her mother died in 1906 when Alexandra was only two years old. Her father's Indian servants called her "Baba Sahib", "Baby Master", and she was thereafter best known as "Baba". She and her sisters, Mary Irene and Cynthia, "Cimmie", were brought up in grand houses, Hackwood Park and Montacute; their London home, 1 Carlton Gardens in Carlton House Terrace, became a centre of elite social life after Curzon's second marriage to Grace Elvina Duggan in 1917. She was dubbed the "prettiest debutante of the 1922 season".

She was the first love of Prince George, Duke of Kent. However, on 21 July 1925 she married Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, the best friend and equerry of George's older brother, Edward VIII. She was one of a handful of witnesses to Edward's marriage to Wallis Simpson.