the Bedfords' ancestral home in Bedfordshire, England. Her autobiography, Chance to Live, was published in 1991, and she appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 3 May 1992. The 11th Duke of Bedford gifted Himalayan tahr to the New Zealand government in 1903 and 1909. Himalayan tahr are near-threatened in their native India and Nepal, but are so numerous in New Zealand's Southern Alps that they are hunted recreationally. A statue of a Himalayan tahr was unveiled in May 2014 at Lake Pukaki and dedicated by the Dowager Duchess of Bedford. Bibliography References "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage" External links Coat of arms before her marriage 1940 births 20th-century English nobility 21st-century English nobility 20th-century English women 21st-century English women Place of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Woburn, Bedfordshire People from London English duchesses by marriage Duchesses of Bedford