Lady Alexandra Naldera MetcalfeCBE (née Curzon; 20 March 1904 – 7 August 1995) was a British aristocrat. She was the third daughter ofLord Curzon, Viceroy of India, and his first wife, the American heiress,Mary Victoria Leiter.

Lady Alexandra Metcalfe CBE
Born	Alexandra Naldera Curzon 20 March 1904[1] London, England
Died	7 August 1995(1995-08-07) (aged 91) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Spouse	Edward Dudley Metcalfe ​ ​ (m. 1925;div. 1955)​
Children	3
Parents	George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Mary Leiter
Relatives	Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale (sister) Lady Cynthia Mosley (sister)

Lady Alexandra Curzon was born in March 1904 in London. She was named after her godmother,Queen Alexandra and her place of conception, Naldehra, nearSimla. Her mother died in 1906 when Alexandra was only two years old. Her father's Indian servants called her "Baba Sahib", "Baby Master", and she was thereafter best known as "Baba". She and her sisters,Irene ("Nina") andCynthia ("Cimmie") were brought up atHackwood Park, Hampshire, andMontacute; their London home, 1 Carlton Gardens inCarlton House Terrace, became a centre of elite social life after Curzon's second marriage toGrace Elvina Duggan in 1917. She was dubbed the "prettiest debutante of the 1922 season".^[2]

She was the first love ofPrince George, Duke of Kent. However, on 21 July 1925 she married MajorEdward Dudley Metcalfe, ADC andequerry ofEdward VIII.^[3] She was one of a handful of witnesses to Edward's marriage toWallis Simpson.^[4]

The Metcalfes had a son, David (1927–2012), who was a noted socialite.^[5]

Before World War II she earned thesobriquet BabaBlackshirt, and for a while played a murky role as a semiwitting go-between for her brother-in-lawSir Oswald Mosley andDino Grandi,Benito Mussolini's ambassador to London, while simultaneously enjoying the romantic devotion of the foreign secretary,Lord Halifax, who was staying at the sameDorchester Hotel as Alexandra and her sister.^[2]

The Metcalfes divorced in 1955 but remained close, with Alexandra reportedly resenting any "denigration of her former husband."^[6]

The main thrust of Baba's later life was her tireless efforts for theSave the Children Fund, a commitment that lasted for more than 40 years. Lady Alexandra joined the Save the Children Fund in 1950 and was very active in fund-raising in London. In 1955, she and her husband divorced and she became a member of the fund's governing council. Later she would become chairman of the Overseas Relief and Welfare Committee, which controls all overseas work of the fund. In 1974 she was elected vice-president.^[7]

She was appointedCommander of theOrder of the British Empire for those efforts in 1975.^[8][9][10]

She died on 7 August 1995 at age 91 atJohn Radcliffe Hospital,Oxford. She was the last surviving witness to thewedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.^[6]

Alexandra was portrayed in the 1980 seven-episode television mini-series,Edward and Mrs. Simpson, which won the 1980 Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.

She was portrayed byFlora Montgomery in the four-episode Channel Four (UK) television drama mini-seriesMosley in 1998. It was based on the booksRules of the Game andBeyond the Pale by her nephew Nicholas Mosley, Mosley's son.

She was portrayed byRebecca Saire inseason 2 ofThe Crown, in the episode "Vergangenheit".

She and her two older sisters were the subjects of a biography byAnne de Courcy inThe Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters.^[11]

• Sarah Bradford, (9 August 1995) Lady Alexandra Metcalfe,The Independent, London. Retrieved 9 April 2007Short Biography