Peter Shand Kydd was born 23 April 1923 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom to Norman Shand Kydd (1895-1962) and Frances Madalein Foy (1900-1983) and died 23 March 2006 Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom of unspecified causes. He married Janet Munro Kerr (-) 1969 . He married Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004) 2 May 1969 . He married Marie-Pierre Bécret 1993 .
Peter Shand Kydd was the stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales, and an heir to the wallpaper fortune built by his father Norman Shand Kydd (1895–1962). His mother was Francis Madalein Foy (died 1983). He was half-brother to champion amateur jockey William Shand Kydd (1937–2014), who was the husband of Christina Muriel Duncan, sister of Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan.[1]
Siblings
Marriages
He married Janet Munro Kerr, granddaughter of John Martin Munro Kerr. He sold the family business in 1962 and moved his family to Australia, where he became a sheep farmer.
After selling the farm and returning to England, and still married, he began an affair with Diana's mother Viscountess Althorp. She was married to John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer. They both divorced, and then were free to marry each other, which they did on 2 May 1969. He thus became stepfather to her five children, including Diana, although the Viscount eventually won the bitter custody battle[2]. They lived in Buckinghamshire and West Itchenor, West Sussex, finally settling on a 1,000 acre (4 km²) farm on the remote Scottish island of Seil. Shand Kydd's second marriage faltered, and the couple separated in June 1988.[3] She blamed the pressure of media attention, following the rise to fame of Diana, for the breakdown of the marriage.
In 1993 he married Marie-Pierre Palmer (née Bécret), who ran a champagne-importing business in London.[4]Template:Pn; this relationship lasted until April 1995. Afterwards he chose to live close to his first wife Janet.[5]
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Adam Shand Kydd (1954-2004) | |||
| John Shand Kydd (1959) | |||
| Angela Shand Kydd (1956) | |||
By his first wife, Shand Kydd had three children. Their elder son, Adam Shand-Kydd, was born in 1954 and became a novelist ("Happy Trails"), before dying in Cambodia in 2004.[6] John Shand Kydd, known as Johnnie, was born in 1959, and is a renowned photographer, with more than 70 works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.[7] His daughter Angela Shand Kydd was born in 1956.
Death
Peter Shand Kydd died on 23 March 2006, at the age of eighty, and was buried on 6 April 2006 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.[8]
References
- ^ "William Shand Kydd 1937-2014". Peerage News. http://peeragenews.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/william-shand-kydd-1937-2014.html.
- ^ "Life of luxury stripped sparse by tragedy". Scotsman. 4 June 2004. http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/life-of-luxury-stripped-sparse-by-tragedy-1-535437. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
- ^ "Frances Shand Kydd". The Telegraph. 4 June 2004. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/1463546/Frances-Shand-Kydd.html. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ Frances - The Remarkable Story Of Princess Diana's Mother -by Max Riddington
- ^ "Peter Shand Kydd". Yorkshire Post. 1 April 2006. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-shand-kydd-1-2611492. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ "Adam Shand Kydd". Telegraph. 12 May 2004. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1461654/Adam-Shand-Kydd.html. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ Barber, Lynn (8 May 2004). "The accidental artist" (in en). the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/may/09/photography. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ "Diana's stepdad to have Suffolk funeral". East Anglian Daily Times. 2006-03-31. http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/diana_s_stepdad_to_have_suffolk_funeral_1_74894. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
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