Baroness Duncan-Sandys, who died 31 July, 2026, was the second wife and widow of the life peer, the Baron Duncan-Sandys, CH (1908-1997).
She was Marie-Claire Schmitt, daughter of Adrien Schmitt, of Paris, France, and married 1stly, 14 October, 1948 (div 1961), the 2nd Viscount Hudson (1924-1963), son of the 1st Viscount Hudson (1886-1957), and his wife the former Hannah Randolph (who died 24 April, 1969); and married 2ndly, in 1962, as his second wife, Edwin Duncan Sandys, CH, PC (born 24 January, 1908, died 26 November, 1987), raised to the peerage for life in 1974 as Baron Duncan-Sandys, former husband of Churchill's daughter Diana Spencer-Churchill (1909-1963), and son of Capt George John Sandys.
From her first marriage she leaves a daughter, Annabel (born 1952).
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