Count Anton von Herberstein died this year.
He was born in 1935. He married in 1963 Countess Elisabeth Kottulinsky von Kottulin und Dobrzenicz (b.1943) [daughter of Johann Adalbert, Count Kottulinsky von Kottulin und Dobrzenicz (1913-1984) {himself son of Countess Maria Theresia von Meran (1893-1981) & her husband, Count Karl Kunata Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz, who became Karl Kunata, Count Kottulinsky von Kottulin und Dobrzenicz (1877-1939)} & his wife, Baroness Cecile von Ottenfels genanntt von Gschwind (1912-2008)] bywhom he had a daughter Theresa (b.1964) and a son Johann Michael (b.1965).
In 2001 he lost his son-in-law Johann Markusich, who died aged only 31, beareaving Theresa and three little sons: Lukas (b.1993), Ferdinand (b.1996) & Nicodemus (b.2000).
In 2004 Theresa gave birth to her fourth son Stanislas, whose father is Christoph von Lattorf (b.1970); they got maried in 2008.
Johann Michael & his wife Camilla, nee Countess zu Hardegg auf Glatz und im Machlande (b.1973) have two sons: Johann Wenzel (b.2004) & Johann Xavier (b.2011).
Count Alfons von Coreth zu Coredo died this year.
He was born in Waizenkirchen (Upper Austria) on 19 February 1930. He married in Salzburg on 21 May 1962 Princess Yvonne of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (b.1942) [daughter of Ludwig, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (1915-1962) & his wife, Baroness Marianne Mayr von Melnhof (*1919)] but they divorced in 1970.
They had two sons together: Constantin (b.1963) & Maximilian (b.1965) as well as seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Source for both:
Descendants of Archduke Johann of Austria
Mrs Jean Frances Woodroffe, CVO, nee Hambro, primo voto Gibbs, secundo voto Elphinstone, died on 7 December.
She was a Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen (when Princess Elizabeth, from 1945) and served as an Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to Her Majesty from 1954. Mrs Woodroffe was a cousin of the Queen by marriage and one of her oldest friends.
She was born on 22 February 1923, a scion of the Hambro banking dynasty, the fourth daughter of Angus Valdimar Hambro (1883-1957) & his second wife Vanda Dorothy Julia Charlton.
She married firstly, on 19 September 1942, Captain the Honourable Vicary Gibbs (1921-1944) of the Grenadier Guards [eldest son of Walter Durant Gibbs, the 4th Baron Aldenham & his wife Elinor Paul]; nearly eight months later, on 14 May 1943, their firstborn daughter, Susan Frances Gibbs, was born, but died already on 1 July (probably due to her prematurity).
Her first husband was killed in action at Nijmegen on 20 September 1944, leaving her with an infant daughter, Jennifer Susan, aged four months and eight days then (who was a Lady in Waiting to the Queen Mother 1993-2002).
The Honourable Mrs Vicary Gibbs married secondly, on 29 May 1946, Reverend the Honourable Andrew Elphinstone (1918-1975) a nephew of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother [exactly: fourth of five children of her eldest sister, Lady Mary Bowes-Lyon (1883-1961) & her husband, Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone (1869-1955)].
From this marriage she had two children, a daughter Rosemary (b.1947) for whom the then Princess Elizabeth stood sponsor, and a son James (1953-1994) later the 18th Lord Elphinstone.
She married thirdly, in 1980, Lieutenant-Colonel John William Richard Woodroffe, the widower of her elder sister, Patricia.
Elizabeth Longford in her biography Elizabeth R writes that in 1945 "Princess Elizabeth was given her own footman, and housemaid and second Lady in Waiting (the first was Lady Mary Strachey). The way in which the second appointment was made in March 1945 was characteristic of the Royal Family's touching almost blind trust in their own inner circle.
The Hon Mrs Vicary Gibbs was a pretty 21 year-old widow whose husband, a Grenadier officer, had been killed in Holland. Jean Hambro by birth she was later to become Princess Elizabeth's first cousin by marriage to Andrew Elphinstone. One day Jean Gibbs received a letter from Sir Arthur Penn, the Queen's private secretary, explaining that an additional lady was needed to serve the princess, a lady who could talk about the Grenadiers and Officers' Welfare. Mrs Gibbs had never set eyes on the King or Queen. Nor had Princess Elizabeth ever set eyes on her. Yet this extraordinary 'on trust' arrangement was to work perfectly, lasting from 1945 to 1954, and continuing thereafter on a part time basis."
Jean Elphinstone only gave up full-time work for the Queen when her husband, Andrew, a Church of England priest, took on a parish in Surrey and she went to assist him there.
Mrs Woodroffe is survived by her two daughters, Jennifer and Rosemary, as well as ten grandchildren and at least nine great-grandchildren; her son, James, Lord Elphinstone died on 19 December 1994, aged only 41, bereaving a wife and four children.
Sources:
http://peeragenews.blogspot.lt/2017/12/jean-frances-woodroffe-cvo-1923-2017.html
http://heinbruins.nl/BowesLyon.html
http://www.thepeerage.com/p39813.htm
http://thepeerage.com/p7912.htm#i79116
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/richmond.html
