Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Denmark, Order of the Dannebrog, Frederick IX issue, Knight’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, nearly extremely fine £100-150

Attributed to Lady Henriette Alice Abel Smith, D.C.V.O., J.P., Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen.

Henriette Alice Cadogan was born on 6 June 1914, to Commander Francis Charles Cadogan and Ruth Evelyn (nee Howard, widow of Captain Gardner Sebastian Bazley). She married firstly in 1939 to Sir Anthony Frederick Mark Palmer, 4th Bt. (killed in action, 1941), by whom she had one son, and secondly in 1953 to Sir Alexander Abel Smith, K.C.V.O., T.D. (died 1980), by whom she had one son and one daughter. Awarded the C.V.O. on 1 January 1964 as Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen, and the D.C.V.O. on 11 June 1977 as Woman of the Bedchamber to H.M. The Queen. In 1987 Lady Abel Smith was appointed an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen.

No supporting documents with this lot. See lots 826, 827 and 828 for other orders awarded to Lady Henriette Alice Abel Smith.