Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell, DCVO DStJ (née Knox; 21 April 1885 – 29 April 1964) was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937 to 1953 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953 to 1960.[1]
Lady Constance was the second, but eldest surviving, daughter of Constance Caulfeild and Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, who was later Governor of New Zealand from 1897 to 1904.[2]
Lady Gaskell was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937 to 1953 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953 to 1960.[1] She was appointed Dame of Justice, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.[3]
On 7 November 1905, she married Maj. Evelyn Milnes Gaskell (d. 1931), a son of Rt. Hon. Charles Milnes Gaskell, MP for Morley,[4] and the former Lady Catherine Henrietta Wallop (a daughter of the 5th Earl of Portsmouth), an author.[5] Together, they were the parents of:[3]
Her son died in a flying accident on 5 November 1943. Lady Constance Milnes Gaskell died in 1964, eight days after her 79th birthday.[3]
Two portraits of Lady Constance are part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.[4]