The King has expressed his deep unhappiness on the dying of Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, one of many late Queen’s dearest associates who has handed away at 91.
Virginia ‘Ginny’ Ryan was the primary American to have served as a lady-in-waiting to the late Queen when she was appointed girl of the bedchamber in 1973 – and was together with her proper up till her dying in September 2022.
The countess – a US transport and tobacco agency heiress – was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in February 1933, the granddaughter of German-American financier Otto Kahn.
She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in 1995 and was one of many late monarch’s most trusted confidantes.
So shut have been they that the late Queen made what’s believed to have been her solely go to to a nightclub when she visited Annabel’s in 2003 to have a good time Woman Virginia’s seventieth birthday.
King Charles III has paid tribute to his mom’s shut confidant Woman Airlie (Pictured: proper with Queen Elizabeth II in 1992) following her dying at 91
Virginia ‘Ginny’ Ryan was the primary American to have served as a lady-in-waiting to the late Queen (Pictured: proper with Queen Elizabeth II in 1992)
His majesty King Charles throughout a go to on the Senedd to commemorate its 25 anniversary in July
In line with Nigel Dempster, the Mail’s acclaimed diarist, the night was an enormous success – the monarch left at midnight and ‘did completely take pleasure in herself’.
An announcement launched from Buckingham Palace yesterday learn: ‘His Majesty was deeply saddened to listen to the information, having recognized Woman Airlie for a lot of his life and having so drastically appreciated her immense devotion and devoted service to Her late Majesty over so a few years.’
King Charles is on vacation in Scotland however has spoken with the countess’s household to precise his sympathies. Woman Virginia’s husband David – himself a childhood good friend of the late Queen – was the thirteenth Earl of Airlie and Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle till his dying final yr on the age of 97.
He attended the final three coronations: as a web page at King George VI’s in 1937; at Queen Elizabeth’s as an official and not too long ago at Charles III’s the place he sat within the entrance row of the nave sporting the robes of a Knight of the Thistle.
The couple, who married in October 1952, have been key figures within the late Queen’s royal family – repeatedly staying at Sandringham and Balmoral.
In 1995, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) (pictured behind the late Queen at Sheridan School of Utilized Arts)
She married Queen Elizabeth’s childhood good friend the thirteenth Earl of Airlie David Ogilvy (pictured with Woman Virginia)
Woman Virginia additionally continuously joined the Queen on journeys to the US and met President and Barbara Bush on the White Home in 1991 for a state dinner.
She accompanied the Queen once more in 2007 to commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of England’s first American settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Exterior of the royal family, she additionally managed a flower farm on the household seat – Cortachy Fortress close to Kirriemuir.
The earl had been such a everlasting fixture within the lives of the Royal Household that he was portrayed within the 2006 movie The Queen by actor Douglas Reith. David and Virginia had six kids collectively and 11 grandchildren.
