Henriette, Lady Abel Smith

Dame Henriette, Lady Abel Smith DCVO JP (6 June 1914 – 3 May 2005), was Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II from 1949 to 1987.

Born Henriette Alice Cadogan, the daughter of Commander Francis Charles Cadogan, RN, and Ruth Evelyn Howard, she held the office of Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II from 1949 to 1987. In 1987, she became an Extra Lady-in-Waiting. She held the office of Justice of the Peace (JP) for Tunbridge Wells in 1955, and for Gloucestershire in 1971. She was invested as a Commander, Royal Victorian Order (CVO), in the 1964 New Year Honours, and elevated to Dame Commander, Royal Victorian Order (DCVO), in 1977.

She married, firstly, Major Sir Anthony Frederick Mark Palmer, 4th Bt., on 4 September 1939. She was widowed in 1941. She married, secondly, Brigadier Sir Alexander Abel Smith, TD on 17 February 1953.

Children with first husband:

Children with second husband:

She died at The Garden House, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, aged 90.

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