Editing Diana, Princess of Wales (section)

==Ancestry==
Diana was born into the British [[Spencer family]], different branches of which hold the titles of [[Duke of Marlborough (title)|Duke of Marlborough]], [[Earl Spencer (peerage)|Earl Spencer]], [[Earl of Sunderland]], and [[Baron Churchill (1815 creation)|Baron Churchill]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper = [[The Times]]|date = 25 July 2013|title = A Modern Monarchy&nbsp;– The Royal Family appears to have overcome its troubles and the new generation has adapted skilfully to a changing Britain|at = Leading articles|quote = Prince George of Cambridge, born on Monday, now has in his relatively recent line miners and labourers; something hard to contemplate a generation ago.}}</ref><ref name=TimesAncestry>{{cite news|newspaper =The Times|author = David White ([[Somerset Herald]])|date = 23 July 2013|title = The Windsors & the Middletons&nbsp;– A family tree|at = Pull-out supplement}}</ref> The Spencers claimed descent from a cadet branch of the powerful medieval Despenser family, but its validity is questioned.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lowe|first=Mark Anthony|title=Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fhtxH5vKV8C&pg=PA325|year=1860|page=325|publisher=Heritage Books, Inc.|location=London|isbn=9780788404566|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204222433/https://books.google.com/books?id=-fhtxH5vKV8C&pg=PA325|archive-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> Her great-grandmother was Margaret Baring, a member of the German-British [[Baring family]] of bankers and the daughter of [[Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ziegler |first=Philip |title=The Sixth Great Power: Barings 1762–1929 |publisher=Collins|location=London|year=1988|isbn=978-0-00-217508-1|author-link=Philip Ziegler}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baringarchive.org.uk/barings_people/brief_history/|title=A Brief History of Barings|work=Baring Archive|access-date=11 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211224944/http://www.baringarchive.org.uk/barings_people/brief_history/|archive-date=11 February 2013}}</ref> Diana's distant noble ancestors included the first [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|Duke]] and [[Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough|Duchess of Marlborough]].{{sfn|Bradford|2006|p=31}} Diana and Charles were distantly related, as they were both descended from the [[House of Tudor]] through [[Henry VII of England]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Charles 'amazed' by Lady Di's yes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117034757/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1981/feb/25/monarchy.alanrusbridger|archive-date=17 November 2015|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1981/feb/25/monarchy.alanrusbridger|date=25 February 1981|access-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> She was also descended from the [[House of Stuart]] through [[Charles II of England]] by [[Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond]], and [[Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton]], and his brother [[James II of England]] by [[Henrietta FitzJames]].<ref name="robinson"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Moncreiffe of that Ilk|first=Sir Iain|year=1982|title=Royal Highness|location=London|publisher=Hamish Hamilton|page=38}}</ref> Other noble ancestors include [[Margaret Kerdeston]], granddaughter of [[Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk]]; [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]], an English nobleman and a [[favourite]] of [[Elizabeth I of England]]; and [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset]], a descendant of [[Edward III of England]] through his son [[Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence]].<ref name="American-Ancestors"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Gary Boyd |title=The Royal Ancestry of Meghan Markle |url=https://www.americanancestors.org/Royal-Ancestry-of-Meghan-Markle.aspx |work=New England Historic Genealogical Society |access-date=16 December 2017 |quote=The Rev. William Skipper's ancestors Sir Philip Wentworth (died 1464) and Mary Clifford are ancestors also, in various lines, of both H.M. the late Queen Mother (and thus H.M. the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry) and of the late Diana, Princess of Wales. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201081716/https://www.americanancestors.org/Royal-Ancestry-of-Meghan-Markle.aspx |archive-date=1 December 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Gary Boyd |title=The Shared Ancestry of (Rachel) Meghan Markle and Prince Harry |journal=American Ancestors |date=30 November 2017 |url=https://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedfiles/content/features/meghan-markle-chart.pdf |access-date=7 December 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208122320/https://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedfiles/content/features/meghan-markle-chart.pdf |archive-date=8 December 2017 }}</ref> Diana's Scottish roots came from her maternal grandmother, Lady Fermoy.<ref name="American-Ancestors"/> Her Scottish ancestors included [[Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon]], and his wife [[Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon|Jane]], and [[Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll]].<ref name="American-Ancestors"/>

Diana's American lineage came from her great-grandmother [[Frances Ellen Work]], daughter of wealthy American stockbroker Franklin H. Work from [[Ohio]], who was married to her great-grandfather [[James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy]], an Irish peer.<ref name="American-Ancestors">{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Richard K.|title=The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales|year=2007|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|location=Boston|isbn=9780880822084|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/Product.aspx?id=14815|access-date=12 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210205411/http://americanancestors.org/Product.aspx?id=14815|archive-date=10 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42141518|title=The other American in Prince Harry's family|work=BBC News|first=Owen|last=Amos|date=27 November 2017|access-date=12 November 2018}}</ref> Diana's fourth great-grandmother in her [[Matrilineality|direct maternal line]], Eliza Kewark, was matrilineally of Indian descent.<ref>{{cite web|title=New genetic evidence that Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is the direct descendant of an Indian woman and that he carries her mitochondrial DNA.|url=https://www.britainsdna.com/files/press-release/Indian%20Ancestry%20of%20William.pdf|work=BritainsDNA|access-date=10 April 2015|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701132540/http://britainsdna.com/files/press-release/Indian%20Ancestry%20of%20William.pdf|archive-date=1 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=DNA tests reveal Prince William's Indian ancestry|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/world/europe/britain-prince-william-india/index.html|work=CNN|date=14 June 2013|access-date=9 September 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910125205/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/world/europe/britain-prince-william-india/index.html|archive-date=10 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|date=14 June 2013|title=Revealed: the Indian ancestry of William|first1=David|last1=Brown|page=1|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/asia-travel/india/revealed-the-indian-ancestry-of-william-ldvsjmc9w59|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Sinha|first=Kounteya|title=Hunt on for Prince William's distant cousins in Surat|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Hunt-on-for-Prince-Williams-distant-cousins-in-Surat/articleshow/20611810.cms?referral=PM|access-date=11 August 2013|newspaper=The Times of India|date=16 June 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319150215/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Hunt-on-for-Prince-Williams-distant-cousins-in-Surat/articleshow/20611810.cms?referral=PM|archive-date=19 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Hern|first=Alex|title=Are there ethical lapses in the Times' story on William's 'Indian ancestry'?|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/06/are-there-ethical-lapses-times-story-williams-indian-ancestry|access-date=11 August 2013|newspaper=New Statesman|date=14 June 2013|quote=Although Eliza Kewark was indeed thought of as Armenian, it's not particularly surprising that she would have had Indian ancestors; the Armenian diaspora had been in India for centuries at the time of her birth, and even the most insular communities tend to experience genetic mixing over in that timescale.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820173757/http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/06/are-there-ethical-lapses-times-story-williams-indian-ancestry|archive-date=20 August 2013}}</ref> She is variously described in contemporary documents as "a dark-skinned native woman" and "an [[Armenians|Armenian]] woman from [[Bombay]]".{{sfn|Williamson|1981a|p= }}{{sfn|Williamson|1981b|p= }}

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|1= 1. '''Diana, Princess of Wales'''
|2= 2. [[John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer]]
|3= 3. [[Frances Shand Kydd|The Honourable Frances Roche]]
|4= 4. [[Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer]]
|5= 5. [[Lady Cynthia Hamilton]]
|6= 6. [[Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy]]
|7= 7. [[Ruth Gill]]
|8= 8. [[Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer]]
|9= 9. [[Margaret Spencer, Countess Spencer|The Honourable Margaret Baring]]
|10= 10. [[James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn]]
|11= 11. [[Lady Rosalind Bingham]]
|12= 12. [[James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy]]
|13= 13. [[Frances Ellen Work]]
|14= 14. William Smith Gill
|15= 15. Ruth Littlejohn
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