The Countess of Annandale & Hartfell (died 2022)

 The Countess of Annandale and Hartfell, wife of the 11th Earl, died 4 November, 2022.

She was the former Susan Josephine Ross, daughter of Colonel Walter John Macdonald Ross, OBE, DL, JP, of Netherhall, Castle Douglas, Dumfriesshire; and married 23 August, 1969, the then Patrick Andrew Wentworth Hope Johnstone (born 19 April, 1941), son of Maj Percy Wentworth Hope Johnstone (1909-1983), and his wife the former Margaret Jane Hunter-Arundell (1910-1998).

Lady Annandale & Hartfell was a sister of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross, GCVO, OBE, GCStJ, DL (1943 – 2019), courtier, who was a member of the Royal Household and from 2006 to 2008, Master of the Household to to then Prince of Wales. 

In 1995 he husband succeeded as 11th Earl of Annadale and Hartfell when his claim to the peerages, and that of the Lordship of Johnstone, was allowed by the House of Lords Committee of Privileges. Her husband has also been 26th Chief of the Clan Johnstone since 5 Apr, 1983.

The Countess, who lived near Lockerbie, in Dumfries, is survived by the Earl, and by a son, David, styled Lord Johnstone (born 13 Oct, 1971), and a daughter Lady Julia (who was born in 1974).

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