Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes
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Cynthia Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes (born 11 February 1957) is the second daughter of Edward Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Frances Shand Kydd (formerly the Honourable Frances Burke Roche). Diana, Princess of Wales was her younger sister. She was born The Honourable Cynthia Jane Spencer; her title changed to The Lady Cynthia Jane Spencer in 1975, when her grandfather died and her father became the 8th Earl Spencer.
Like her sisters, Lady Fellowes was educated at West Heath boarding school near Sevenoaks in Kent. Sources say she was an excellent student, achieving the status of school Prefect and passing a good number of A-level exams. To paraphrase Andrew Morton Lady Fellowes acquired a "hatful" of O-level and A-level exams1.
Lady Fellowes is married to Lord Fellowes. They were married in March 1978 at Westminster Abbey. Then-Lady Diana Spencer was a bridesmaid. Lord and Lady Fellowes have three children — Laura Jane Fellowes (born 19 July 1980), Alexander Robert Fellowes (born 23 March 1983), and Eleanor Ruth Fellowes (born 20 August 1985). According to Diana's butler Paul Burrell, Lady Fellowes husband's job as the queen's private secretary, caused tremondous strain in their relationship and by the time of Diana's death they had not even spoken in a number of years. On the other hand, Diana's childhood nanny, Mary Clarke2, author of a memoir about the nanny's experience raising Diana and her siblings, claims that the relations between the Baroness and Diana were not as bitter as Burrell and others have said or assumed. There is no disputing that their relations were easier during Diana's years as a member of the royal family, when the sisters were neighbors on the Kensington Palace estate, with Diana living at Numbers 8 and 9, and Lady Jane living at a house called the Old Barracks3.
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References and Sources
- [1] Diana: Her True Story, by Andrew Morton
- [2] Little Girl Lost: The Troubled Childhood of Princess Diana by the Woman who Raised Her, by Mary Clarke
- [3] Diana in Private... by Lady Colin Campbell
- Paul Burrell
- Obituaries for her father, her mother and of course Diana, Princess of Wales that were published in the London Times
--Casiraghitrio 04:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
