1. Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy was a British businessman.
16 Facts About Angus Ogilvy
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Angus Ogilvy is best known as the husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Angus Ogilvy was born in London as the second son of the 12th Earl of Airlie and Lady Alexandra Coke, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Leicester.
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Angus Ogilvy's grandmother, Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, was a close friend and lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary.
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Angus Ogilvy's father was a lord-in-waiting to George V and Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth.
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Angus Ogilvy was educated at Heatherdown School, near Ascot in Berkshire, and later at Eton College.
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Angus Ogilvy rejected a grace-and-favour apartment at one of the royal palaces.
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Angus Ogilvy retained a grace-and-favour apartment at St James's Palace.
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Angus Ogilvy said that she wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth II, addressing her "Dear Cousin Lilibet", asking her to intervene in the family dispute.
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Angus Ogilvy served as president of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and as chairman of Youth Clubs UK, the biggest non-uniformed youth organisation in Britain.
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Angus Ogilvy was patron of Arthritis Care, vice-patron of the National Children's Homes, chairman of the advisory council of The Prince's Trust, a trustee of the Leeds Castle Foundation, as well as being a member of the governing council of Business in the Community and of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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Angus Ogilvy was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the Sovereign's Bodyguard in Scotland, in which his father had served as one of its four lieutenants.
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Angus Ogilvy suffered from throat cancer in later years, and his last public appearance with his wife was when he accompanied her to Thailand for an official tour.
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Angus Ogilvy died in Kingston upon Thames, London, on 26 December 2004 after spending three months in hospital with cancer-related illnesses, including acute pneumonia.
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Angus Ogilvy's funeral took place at St George's Chapel, Windsor in Windsor Castle on 5 January 2005.
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Angus Ogilvy was buried in the Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore, at Windsor.