Lady Anne Camilla Eveline "Micky" Nevill (née Wallop; 12 July 1925 – 25 January 2023) was a British aristocrat and confidante of Elizabeth II.
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Early life
Lady Anne was born at Ellisfield, Hampshire, the second daughter of Gerard Wallop (later the Earl of Portsmouth) and his first wife, Mary Lawrence Post. Her parents were both born in the United States; her paternal grandfather Oliver was a horse breeder in the American West in the late 1800s and remained there even after inheriting the Earldom.
Two months after her birth, her great-grandfather the 7th Earl of Portsmouth died, and her father was styled Viscount Lymington until he inherited the earldom. From 1929–34, he was a Member of Parliament for Basingstoke parliamentary constituency, with the family home in Farleigh Wallop. Her parents divorced in 1936. The following year, she was one of a selection of aristocratic girls around the same age as the then-Princess Elizabeth, later to be Queen Elizabeth II, who was brought to Buckingham Palace to form the Guides group there. Anne, known by her middle name Camilla, and nicknamed "Micky" from this, had become a good friend of Elizabeth by World War II.
When she was 15 and living with her mother in London, their home was bombed; they moved to the Savoy Hotel with her maternal uncle.