Anne Mary Sibylla Abel Smith (formerly Liddell-Grainger; born 28 July 1932) is a British aristocrat and Christian charity worker.
In her sixties, she attended gospel meetings in Kennington, did missionary work in Africa, and was often invited to Royal Ascot and other functions by the Queen.
[3] Her maternal grandfather was Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, the youngest son of Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III through his seventh son, Prince Adolphus; the Earl of Athlone's only sister was Queen Mary, the wife of King George V.[5] She attended King's Hall Compton in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada when she was twelve.
[9] The couple had five children,[1] including Ian Liddell-Grainger, who became the first direct descendant of Queen Victoria to be elected to the House of Commons in 2001.
[1] In a rare interview in 1998, Abel Smith told The Mirror that she was a frequent passenger on board the hospital ship MV Anastasis, paying her own way to join Christian missions to third world countries as a volunteer.