Mansfield Markham

During the Great War, she turned her abilities to the training of women in war-service and, in 1917, was rewarded with the very high award of Companion of Honour, (CH).Robert Fraser Watson, a younger son of the first Lord Manton, which change "produced a great deal of amused speculation within the (Kenya) Colony, whose chief occupation and innocent delight was social gossip.[1] However, in 1928 and after the birth of the child Gervase in 1929, Mrs. Markham shocked her high society contemporaries by embarking on an affair with Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of the reigning King-Emperor, George V.[1] The affair continued, in England, into the following year and Markham decided to bring an action for divorce.He indicated he would name the Prince in the proceedings, at which point Queen Mary intervened to grant Beryl a small annual income, to help her to travel and so enable the affair to cool off.After his mother's death in 1960, Markham took control of Commodore Shipping, a business which began in the late 1940s as an excursion operator in the South East of England, using former Royal Navy vessels.
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