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Peter Shand Kydd was born on 23 April 1925 in France. He was the son of Sir Thomas Shand Kydd and his wife, Janet. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served in the British Army during World War II, and was awarded the Military Cross for his service in the Korean War. After leaving the army, he worked in the family business, Shand Kydd & Co. He married Frances Ruth Roche in 1969, and they had two children, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and John Shand Kydd. Peter Shand Kydd was a successful businessman and philanthropist. He was a director of the family business, Shand Kydd & Co, and was also a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was a trustee of the National Gallery and a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. He was a keen sailor and owned several yachts, including the famous 'White Cloud'. He was also a passionate collector of art and antiques. Peter Shand Kydd died on 3 June 2006, aged 81. His net worth at the time of his death was estimated to be around £20 million.

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2006

Peter Shand Kydd died on 23 March 2006, at the age of eighty, and was buried on 6 April 2006 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

1993

In 1993, Shand Kydd married Marie-Pierre Palmer (née Bécret), a younger, chic, voluptuous, and French, woman who ran a champagne-importing business in London, which lasted until April 1995.

1969

After selling the farm and returning to England, and still married, he began an affair with Diana's mother (Frances) Viscountess Althorp. She was married to John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later 8th Earl Spencer. They both divorced, and then were free to marry each other, which they did on 2 May 1969. He thus became stepfather to her four children, including Diana, although the Viscount eventually won the bitter custody battle. They lived in Buckinghamshire and West Itchenor, West Sussex, finally settling on a 1,000 acre (4 km²) farm on the remote Scottish island of Seil. The couple separated in June 1988. Frances blamed the pressure of media attention, following the rise to fame of Diana, for the breakdown of the marriage.

1962

He married Janet Munro Kerr, granddaughter of John Martin Munro Kerr. He sold the family business in 1962 and moved his family to Australia, where he became a sheep farmer.

1954

By his first wife, Shand Kydd had three children. Their elder son, Adam Shand Kydd, was born in 1954 and became a novelist (Happy Trails), before dying in Cambodia in 2004. John Shand Kydd, known as Johnnie, was born in 1959, and is a renowned photographer, with more than 70 works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

1925

Peter Shand Kydd (23 April 1925 – 23 March 2006) was the stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales, and an heir to the wallpaper fortune built by his father Norman Shand Kydd (1895–1962). His mother was Frances Madalein Foy (died 1983). He was half-brother to champion amateur jockey William Shand Kydd (1937–2014), who was the husband of Christina Muriel Duncan, sister of Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan.