Kathleen Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn
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Kathleen Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, DCVO (8 July 1905 – 2 February 1990) was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1964 to her death in 1990. She was invested as a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1969.
Born Mary Kathleen Crichton, the daughter of Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton, she was married on 9 February 1928 to the Marquess of Hamilton (in St Martin-in-the-Fields), who succeeded his father as 4th Duke of Abercorn in 1953. In 1953 Kathleen Hamilton took the title of Duchess of Abercorn.
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- 1905 births
- 1990 deaths
- British duchesses by marriage
- Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- Daughters of British earls
- Mistresses of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
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