Virginia Fortune (“Ginny”) (Rt Hon Countess of Airlie) Ryan, DCVO

1933 - 2024  (91 years)

• Name	Virginia Fortune (“Ginny”) (Rt Hon Countess of Airlie) Ryan
  Suffix	DCVO
  Birth	9 Feb 1933
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 Aug 2024
  Person ID	I194606	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	John Barry Ryan, Jr.
  Mother	Margaret Kahn
  Family ID	F80193	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	David George Coke Patrick (13th Earl of Airlie) Ogilvy, KT GCVO PC,   b. 17 May 1926   d. 26 Jun 2023 (Age 97 years)
  Marriage	1952
  Children	1. David John (14th Earl of Airlie) Ogilvy   2. 5 Further Children Ogilvy
  Family ID	F80192	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2024

  
  

• Notes

  The first and only American lady of the bedchamber to the Queen the granddaughter of the Jewish-American financier Otto Kahn. One of her grandsons, John Hereward WAKE (b.1978), is the ha to his father's (Sir Hereward WAKE, 15th Baronet), baronetcy. John's mother, Lady Doune Mabell (b.1953) is the late Countess' daughter and was the first wife of Sir Hereward. Lady Doune's younger brother, David (b. 1958), succeeded their father as the current Earl of Airlie last year.