Lady Elizabeth Basset, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lady Elizabeth Basset

Courtier; Woman of the Bedchamber

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1908

Place of Birth: Knightsbridge, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 30-Nov-2000

Profession: writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Lady Elizabeth Basset, DCVO (née Legge; 5 March 1908 – 30 November 2000) was an English author and courtier. Basset was born at 8 Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge, the second daughter of the 7th Earl of Dartmouth and Lady Ruperta Wynn-Carrington, daughter of the Marquess of Lincolnshire.Educated at home, on 31 October 1931, she married Ronald Lambert Basset (1898-1972), senior representative of the ancient Basset family of Tehidy in Cornwall.
She had two children, industrialist Bryan Ronald Basset (1932–2010) and Peter Francis Basset (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 was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1976 and a dame of the same order in 1989.Lady Elizabeth authored a devotional book, Love Is My Meaning and four anthologies.Lady Elizabeth Basset died in London in 2000, aged 92.