Alexandra was a daughter of
Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian and a godchild of
Queen Alexandra. Among her siblings were
Hon Dorothy Maud Vivian (1879-1939), who married
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force during
World War I, and
George Vivian, 4th Baron Vivian (1878-1940). On 31 January 1911, she married Lt.
Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley, the eldest son and heir of the
4th Earl of Yarborough. In 1914, Lady Worsley's husband was killed on active service in
Belgium during
World War I after only three years of marriage. She purchased the land where Lord Worsley's body was buried in the town of
Zandvoorde, and after Worsley's body was re-interred, the land became the site of the Household Cavalry Memorial. The couple did not have any children and Lady Worsley did not remarry. In 1945, she was appointed an
OBE for her service to the
war effort with the
WVS and became an Extra
Woman of the Bedchamber to
Queen Elizabeth in 1947. In 1953, she was promoted to a
CBE for her work with the
Victoria League and died, aged 73, in 1963. ==References==