NOBLEMAN

Frances Shand Kydd

1936 - 2004

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Frances Ruth Shand Kydd (previously Spencer, née Roche; 20 January 1936 – 3 June 2004) was the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She was the maternal grandmother of William, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, respectively first and fifth in the line of succession to the British throne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Shand Kydd has received more than 6,367,060 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Frances Shand Kydd is the 388th most popular nobleman (up from 541st in 2019), the 1,230th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,564th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Nobleman.

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  • 57.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Frances Shand Kydd ranks 388 out of 1,415. Before her are Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Eric Magnusson. After her are Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Charlene, Princess of Monaco, Princess Deokhye, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, and José, Prince of Brazil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Frances Shand Kydd ranks 115. Before her are Didier Ratsiraka, Frank Stella, Christiane Martel, James Mirrlees, Jim Henson, and Jacques Mesrine. After her are Raimonds Pauls, Julio María Sanguinetti, Solomon Burke, A. S. Byatt, Amr Moussa, and Claude Brasseur. Among people deceased in 2004, Frances Shand Kydd ranks 71. Before her are Marika Rökk, Richard Avedon, Lennart Bernadotte, Raymond Goethals, Philippe de Broca, and Tom Wesselmann. After her are Thanom Kittikachorn, Nino Manfredi, Rafael Eitan, Marco Pantani, Masanori Tokita, and Harold Shipman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frances Shand Kydd ranks 1,230 out of 8,785. Before her are Dave Evans (1953), Jimmy Savile (1926), James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812), George Biddell Airy (1801), Robert Stirling (1790), and Ciarán Hinds (1953). After her are Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855), John Hunter (1728), James Faulkner (1948), Joseph Banks (1743), Robert Faurisson (1929), and John Entwistle (1944).

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Among NOBLEMEN In United Kingdom

Among noblemen born in United Kingdom, Frances Shand Kydd ranks 37. Before her are John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389), Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime (1849), Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (1473), Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (1689), and Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (1480). After her are Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855), Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France (1424), Louise d'Orléans (1869), William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146), Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), and Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415).

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