She lived an extraordinary life at the very pinnacle of British society – though she became known for her near-death run in with the IRA. On the day she would have turned one hundred Tatler remembers Patricia Knatchbull's famous life
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It is remembered as one of the most shocking events to hit the Royal Family in modern times. Yet the loss of Princess Diana in 1997 was not the first shattering royal death the Windsors suffered.
Besides Charles himself, who was aged just four when he witnessed the crowning of his mother, the Duke of Kent, now 87, is the most senior surviving royal who attended the 1953 ceremony.