LINDSAY, Lady Amabel (Lady Amabel Mary Maude YORKE) 1935-2025

[Richard R]

From the Times of 22 Nov 2025: LINDSAY, Lady Amabel Mary Maude (nee Yorke) on 16th November 2025, aged 90. Widow of Hon Patrick Lindsay and much-loved mother of Laura, Ludovic, James and Valentine, grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin and friend. Funeral at The London Oratory at 11am on Thursday 11th December 2025. All welcome. No flowers please….

She was d of 9th Earl of HARDWICKE 1906-74 and Sarah Katherine d 1965 d of Rt Hon Sir Francis Oswald LINDLEY GCMG CB CBE 1872-1950 (s of the Law Lord Baron LINDLEY 1828-1921) and Hon Etheldreda Mary FRASER 1872-1949 d of 13th Lord LOVAT 1828-87 and Alice Mary WELD-BLUNDELL 1846-1938. She m 1955 Hon Patrick LINDSAY 1928-86 s of 28th Earl of CRAWFORD & [11th] BALCARRES 1900-75 by his CAVENDISH wife a gt gd of 7th Duke of DEVONSHIRE 1808-91, gd of 10th Duke of ST ALBANS 1840-98 of King CHARLES II descent, etc, and had three sons and a dau as above.

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times of 27 Nov 2025:

E X T R A C T

Lady Amabel Lindsay obituary: one-time love rival of the Queen

Big game-hunting socialite and member of Princess Margaret’s ‘Mustique set’ who was linked with Andrew Parker Bowles, dies aged 90

Amabel Lindsay killed a crocodile with the first shot of her life. Lindsay and her new husband, Patrick, were on honeymoon in India in January 1956 as guests of the Maharaja and Maharani of Jaipur, whose wedding present to them was a big-game expedition. She had not previously handled a weapon, but with that first salvo bagged a crocodile skin for their London flat, leading to press speculation that her next target might be a tiger.
Shots of a different kind were fired when news emerged that as a young wife and mother Lindsay had been among several women competing for the affections of Andrew Parker Bowles, then a dashing brigadier, before he and Camilla Shand (now the Queen) married in 1973…

…[she was] a member of Princess Margaret’s “Mustique set”, remained a lifelong friend of Parker Bowles. Having been widowed in 1986 she was one of several female companions who comforted him in the mid-1990s during his divorce from Camilla having, it was unkindly said, laid down his wife for his country.

… in December 1955 she married the Hon Patrick Lindsay, second son of the 28th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Scotland’s premier earl. Four years previously Patrick had broken his neck in a skiing accident in Switzerland but had since made a good recovery. Their nuptials were held at St James’s Spanish Place, a gloriously gothic Catholic church in Marylebone, central London…

… She is survived by their four children: Laura; Ludovic, a documentary producer; James, a photographer; and Valentine, a racing driver and former bass guitarist with the aristocratic rock band the Business Connection…

… She lived on a quiet country farm near Hungerford, punctuated by visits to her elegant house in Holland Park, west London, where the grounds had the feel of a country garden…

… While firm in her ways, Lindsay remained loyal to her family. In 1998 she whisked her errant nephew, the 10th Earl of Hardwicke, away to a villa in sun-drenched Spain after he was exposed in a drugs sting. A subsequent newspaper report described how, at the mere mention of her name, he stiffened slightly and emitted a nervous laugh: “She is quite, um, she is quite … er. Well, I have to be really careful what I say about Aunt Amabel.”

As for the crocodile rug, it never did get a tiger-skin companion.

Lady Amabel Lindsay, socialite, was born on April 2, 1935. She died on November 16, 2025, aged 90

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/lady-amabel-lindsay-obituary-one-time-love-rival-of-the-queen-gcrxg8lqb