The Queen's cousin Lady Elizabeth Shakerley has died aged 79.
Better known in her professional capacity as Lady Elizabeth Anson, she was a close friend of Her Majesty.
During her life she was responsible for arranging many of the Monarch's private parties through a firm she founded decades ago.
Lady Shakerley was the daughter of Thomas Anson, Viscount Anson, and his wife, Anne Bowes-Lyon, who would later become Princess Anne of Denmark when she remarried.
She was born in Windsor Castle in 1941 and is 11 years junior to the Queen.
Lady Elizabeth went on to found the firm Party Planners in 1960 and went on to arrange events for a number of people in the royal houses as well as the Queen.
She died in the early hours of Sunday morning with members of her family at her bedside.
Lady Elizabeth leaves one daughter and two grandchildren.
