Editing Frances Shand Kydd (section)

==Later years==
In 1996, she was banned from driving after being convicted of drunk driving,<ref>{{cite web|date=3 June 2004|title=Obituary: Frances Shand Kydd|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3642707.stm|access-date=29 May 2018|publisher=BBC}}</ref> but denied she had a problem with alcohol. She and Diana quarrelled in May 1997, after she told ''[[Hello! (magazine)|Hello!]]'' magazine that Diana was happy to lose her title of "Royal Highness" following her controversial divorce from Prince Charles. She was reportedly not on speaking terms with her daughter by the time of [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|Diana's death]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Milmo|first=Cahal|date=25 October 2002|title=Diana did not talk to me in final months, admits her mother|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/diana-did-not-talk-to-me-in-final-months-admits-her-mother-141065.html|access-date=24 October 2016}}</ref><ref name="far14jan">{{cite news|last=Farouky|first=Jumana|date=14 January 2008|title=Diana's Butler Tells Some Secrets|newspaper=Time|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1703424,00.html|url-status=dead|access-date=30 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114034932/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1703424,00.html|archive-date=14 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=24 October 2002|title=Diana's 'rift' with mother|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2357735.stm|access-date=29 May 2018|publisher=BBC}}</ref>

She spent her later years in solitude on Seil.<ref name="her26oct">{{cite news|date=26 October 2002|title=Profile: Frances Shand Kydd|newspaper=The Herald|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-26489144_ITM|access-date=6 July 2013}}</ref> She became a [[Catholicism|Catholic]] and devoted herself to Catholic charities.<ref name="cor4june" /> She eventually became involved with The Hosanna House and Children's Pilgrimage Trust, the Royal National Mission for Deep Sea Fishermen, the Mallaig and Northwest Fishermen's Association, and the National Search and Rescue Dogs Association.<ref name="Telegraph obit"/>

In October 2002, when Frances left her Scottish home to give testimony at the trial of Diana's former butler, [[Paul Burrell]], burglars targeted her house and stole her jewellery.<ref>{{cite web|date=25 October 2002|title=Burglars target Diana's mother|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2360609.stm|access-date=29 May 2018|publisher=BBC}}</ref>