Lady Rachel Pepys

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Lady (Mary) Rachel Pepys, née Fitzalan-Howard, DCVO (27 June 1905 – 17 August 1992) was a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1943 – 1968.

Lady Rachel was the eldest child of the 15th Duke of Norfolk and his wife, Gwendolen.

On 31 July 1939, she married Lt. Col. Colin Davidson and they had two children: Duncan Henry Davidson (b. 1941) and Harriet Mary (b. 1942), who married Michael Sefi, the current Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection.

Lady Rachel's first husband was killed in Tunisia during World War II and on 9 November 1961, she married Brig. Anthony Pepys, who died six years later. She retired from the Duchess of Kent's household a year later and died in 1992, aged 87.