Mary Carew Pole
Dame Mary Carew Pole, Lady Carew Pole, DCVO (née Dawnay; born 1936) is a British courtier.
She was born in 1936, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Dawnay (1908–1990) and Lady Elizabeth Grey (1908–1941), daughter of Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey; through her father, she is the great-granddaughter of the 8th Viscount Downe and the 5th Marquess of Waterford, and a great-great-granddaughter of the 8th Duke of Beaufort.[1][2]
Dawnay was the journalist and politician Aidan Crawley's secretary from 1962 to 1966. In 1970 Princess Anne, Princess Royal, appointed Dawnay to be a lady-in-waiting and she remained as such until January 2024, when she was appointed an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess.[3] For her services, she was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2003 and promoted to Dame Commander in 2018.[4][5]
In 1974, Dawnay married Richard Carew Pole, who succeeded his father as 13th baronet in 1993.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Charles Mosley (ed.), Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 1, p. 1174.
- ^ Mosley, Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 1, p. 1174; vol. 2, p. 1664; vol. 3, p. 3422.
- ^ Appendix to the Court Circular, 31 January 2024
- ^ "Carew Pole, Dame Mary, (Lady Carew Pole)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- ^ The London Gazette, 24 April 1970 (issue 45087), p. 4655.