Edwina Sylvia Bonn (née de Winton-Wills), who died at Pitlochry, 8 January, 2023, aged 89, was a scion of the Wills baronets, and the first wife of the 7th Marquess of Ailesbury.
She was born 13 March, 1933, second daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ernest Edward de Winton Wills, 4th Baronet (1903-1983), late the Scots Guards, of Meggernie Castle, and his first wife the former Sylvia Margaret Ogden (d 26 Jan 1946); she married 1stly, 17 March, 1952 (div 1961), Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, then styled Viscount Savernake (born 31 March, 1926) (now the 8th Marquess of Ailesbury), son of the late 7th Marquess (1904-74), and his 1st wife Joan Houlton Salter (d 24 July, 1937); married 2ndly, 1963, Major Christopher Leslie Leo Bonn, Welsh Guards (1928-2008), scion of that landed family, sometime Equerry to HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, son of Major Walter Basil Louis Bonn (1885-1973), and his wife the former Leopoldina Theodora Davidson (1894-1974), scion of that landed gentry family.
From her first marriage she leaves issue, a son, David, styled Earl of Cardigan (born 12 Nov, 1952), and two daughters, Lady Sylvia Brudenell-Bruce (born 19 June 1954), and Lady Carina Brudenell-Bruce (born 13 Jan 1956), and from her second marriage, a son, Philip (born 9 Feb 1964), and three daughters, Melissa, Camilla and Melanie.
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