Overview

• Palace officials said she died peacefully overnight and that the King, the Queen and the wider royal family are mourning with the Duke of Kent and his family.
• The Union flag at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half‑mast and a formal notice announcing her death was posted on the palace railings.
• Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
• Long associated with Wimbledon, she helped present trophies from 1969 and was widely noted for consoling Jana Novotná after the 1993 final.
• She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1994, stepped back from public duties in 2002, and later taught music as “Mrs. Kent” while supporting young musicians through the Future Talent charity.