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Dowager Duchess Montagu dies

THE Dowager Duchess of Northumberland has died at the age of 90.

Born Lady Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott, the daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch, she was the mother of the current Duke of Northumberland, Ralph. She married Hugh Percy, the 10th Duke of Northumberland, who died in 1988. The family said she died peacefully at her home in Surrey yesterday.

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