Alexandra, Duchess of Abercorn: the impossibly well-connected royal insider, related to the Romanovs, the Windsors and the Westminsters, who dedicated her life to activism in Northern Ireland

A close confidant of Prince Philip and Lord Mountbatten, the late Duchess of Abercorn was the aunt of the Duke of Westminster, had a British princess among her godparents, and counted Queen Elizabeth II among her wedding guests