Princess Diana s Grandmother was much disturbing than you think

Princess Diana s Grandmother was much disturbing than you think

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Picture a concert pianist who trained in Paris under one of the great virtuosos of the age, a woman who befriended a queen and founded her own arts festival on the Norfolk coast.
Charming, isn't she? Now picture that same woman climbing into a witness box in a London courtroom to help strip four young children away from her own daughter.
Both women existed. They shared a name, a face, and a life, and the gap between them holds this entire story.
She entered the world as Ruth Sylvia Gill, collected the surname Roche through marriage, and finished her long life as Baroness Fermoy, a title most people have never heard and would struggle to place.