For the historic coronation at Westminster Abbey on 6 May, Queen Camilla was joined by two Ladies in Attendance – her younger sister Annabel Elliot and Lady Lansdowne.
The latter is one of the Queen’s six companions, who is also known as Fiona Shelburne or the Marchioness of Lansdowne following the death of her father-in-law in 1999.
The 68-year-old became one of Camilla’s companions – who are dear and trusted friends – in 2022 alongside Sarah Troughton, Jane von Westenholz, Lady Katharine Brooke, Baroness Carlyn Chisholm and Lady Sarah Keswick.
Who is Lady Lansdowne?
Born in October 1954, Lady Lansdowne is a professional interior designer who set up her studio Fiona Shelburne over three decades ago.
She met her husband Charlie, the 9th Marquis, during a visit to Bowood House while she was working for Charles Hammond in the 1980s.
They got married in 1987 and they now live at the Grade I listed Georgian country house in Wiltshire with their three dogs, not far from their 10 grandchildren.
Lady Lansdowne has not only been a long-term friend of the royal couple, but she is the godmother of the Queen’s daughter, Laura Lopes, whom she shares with her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles.
