Dame Ann Parker Bowles DCVO CBE (née de Trafford; 14 July 1918 – 22 January 1987)[2] was a British aristocrat and Girl Guides leader.
Ann de Trafford was born in 1918 at 29, Portland Place, London, the eldest daughter of millionaire racehorse owner Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 4th Baronet,[1] and the Hon.
[3] The de Trafford Baronets descend from a pre-Conquest-founded line of recusant (a term coined to describe the minority of English people who remained Roman Catholic during and after the English Reformation in a time of religious persecution) lords of the manor who were wealthy in the Middle Ages and restored to hereditary title in the mid-19th century.
Ann Parker Bowles was a Commissioner of the Commonwealth Girl Guides Association.
They had four children: Her eldest son Andrew was the first husband of Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom.