Name Lady Basset Role Author | Died November 30, 2000 | |
Lady Elizabeth Basset, DCVO (5 March 1908 – 30 November 2000) was born Elizabeth Legge, daughter of the 7th Earl of Dartmouth.
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Educated at home, on 31 October 1931, she married Ronald Lambert Basset (1898-1972), senior representative of the ancient Basset family of Tehidy in Cornwal. She had two children, Bryan Ronald (1932–2010) and Peter Francis (1935–1954). During the Second World War, she ran a small farm in North Devon.
In 1959, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, asked Basset to be a Woman of the Bedchamber.
She held that position until 1981. She was active as a Lady-in-Waiting from 1982–93. She retired at the age of 85. She authored a devotional book, Love Is My Meaning and four anthologies.
Death
Lady Elizabeth Basset died in 2000, aged 92, in London.