Editing Frances Shand Kydd (section)

==Divorce and remarriage==
[[File:Ardencaple House, Isle of Seil - geograph.org.uk - 385544.jpg|thumb|right|267px|Ardencaple House, [[Isle of Seil]], [[Scotland]]: country residence of Frances and her second husband, Peter Shand Kydd]]
Her marriage to Viscount Althorp was not a happy one and, in 1967, she left him to be with [[Peter Shand Kydd]], an heir to a wallpaper fortune in Australia, whom she had met the year before. His half-brother was the former champion amateur jockey William Shand Kydd (1937–2014), who was the brother-in-law of [[John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan]]. <ref name=cor4june/> Frances lived with her two youngest children, Diana and Charles, in London during the separation in 1967, but during that year's Christmas holidays, Viscount Althorp refused to let his children return to London with their mother.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brown |first=Tina |author-link=Tina Brown |year=2007 |title=The Diana Chronicles |publisher=Doubleday |location=London; New York |isbn=978-0-385-51708-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/dianachronicles00brow_0|pages=40–41}}</ref> He was granted custody of their children by the courts after his former mother-in-law, Lady Fermoy, testified against her own daughter Frances.<ref>''The Times (London)'', Thursday, 8 July 1993; p. 4 col. D and p. 19 col. A</ref>

Frances and Peter Shand Kydd were married on 2 May 1969 and lived on the Scottish island of [[Seil]], where they bought an 18th-century farmhouse called Ardencaple,<ref>{{cite web|title=Ardencaple House, Isle of Seil|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385544|access-date=19 July 2019|publisher=Geograph Britain and Ireland}}</ref> 10 kilometres from [[Oban]]. She divided her time between London, Seil and another sheep farm in [[Yass, New South Wales]]. On 14 July 1976, John Spencer, now the 8th Earl Spencer, married [[Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer|Raine, Countess of Dartmouth]], daughter of the novelist [[Dame Barbara Cartland]].<ref name="scotsman04">{{cite news|date=4 June 2004|title=Life of luxury stripped sparse by tragedy|newspaper=Scotsman|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/life-of-luxury-stripped-sparse-by-tragedy-1-535437|access-date=27 May 2013}}</ref> Although Frances lived a quiet life, she was forced into public view following the engagement of her daughter Diana to [[Prince Charles]] on 24 February 1981.<ref>{{cite news|date=21 June 1982|title=Princess Diana enters hospital in early labor|newspaper=Youngstown Vindicator|agency=AP|location=London|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MyBAAAAAIBAJ&pg=2686,2259663&dq=frances+ruth+roche&hl=en|access-date=21 July 2013}}</ref> Frances and her second husband Peter separated in June 1988.<ref name="Telegraph obit"/> In 1993 Peter Shand Kydd married Marie-Pierre Palmer (''née'' Bécret),<ref name="standard/7231369">{{cite news |last1=Riddington |first1=Max |title=The truth about Di |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/the-truth-about-di-7231369.html |access-date=14 November 2022 |work=[[Evening Standard]] |agency=[[Daily Mail]] |date=13 April 2012 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="thefreelibrary/a0117653046">{{cite news |title=Lonely End of Diana's Sad Mum – a Life of Turmoil for the Mother of the World's Tragic Princess – Family absent as Shand Kydd dies |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/LONELY+END+OF+DIANA%27S+SAD+MUM%3B+A+LIFE+OF+TURMOIL+FOR+THE+M+MOTHER+OF...-a0117653046 |access-date=14 November 2022 |work=[[Daily Record (Scotland)]] |location=Glasgow, Scotland |via=[[Free Online Library]]}}</ref> a French woman who ran a champagne-importing business in London.<ref>Max Riddington. ''Frances – The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Mother''</ref><ref>https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/the-truth-about-di-7231369.html</ref>