Alexandra Pelham, Lady Worsley
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Alexandra Mary Freesia Pelham, née Vivian, Lady Worsley (27 February 1890–21 September 1963) was a British volunteer and courtier.
Alexandra was a daughter of the 3rd Baron Vivian and a godchild of Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra). On 31 January 1911, she married Lt. Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley, the eldest son and heir of the 4th Earl of Yarborough.
In 1914, Lady Apsley 's husband was killed on active service in Belgium during World War I. The couple did not have any children and Lady Apsley did not remarry. In 1945, she was appointed an OBE for her service to the war effort with the WVS and became an Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen in 1947. In 1953, she was promoted to a CBE for her work with the Victoria League and died, aged 73, in 1963.
