Lady Mary Russell carried the queen's train on her coronation day.
Lady Mary Russell died on September 18 at the age of 88. She was one of Queen Elizabeth's six maids of honor on her coronation day, June 2, 1953. The ladies held the queen's gold-embellished ivory-and-purple train through the ceremony.
The two had known each other for years, as Lady Mary's father, the Earl of Haddington, was a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth's mother.earlier this month. It read that she was a beloved wife, mother to three sons and two daughters, and grandmother to 12 grandchildren, and that she died "peacefully" at home with her family.
Queen Elizabeth's funeral and burial were held the day after her friend's death, on September 19, at Westminster Abbey in London. She died on September 8. Westminster Abbey is also where the late queen was crowned back in 1953, one year after the death of her father, King George VI.
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