The funeral service for Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire will be held at 12 noon at St Peter’s Church, Edensor, DE45 1PH on Thursday 2 October 2014.

Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be refreshments at Chatsworth after the service.

No memorial service will be held, as were her express instructions. Donations in her memory to the Addington Fund and/or Helen’s Trust will be much appreciated.

The funeral cortège will leave Chatsworth at approximately 11.15am.

Those wishing to travel by train from London please contact Mary Russell (01246 565 435 or [email protected])

Duke of Devonshire

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Notes to editors:

Media arrangements for funeral attendance.

Arrangements are ongoing and further information regarding the media meeting point, arrival time, contacts on the day and other details will be issued early next week. 

Chatsworth is only 16 miles from the MI, 10 miles from Chesterfield, and 8 miles north of Matlock, in the heart of Derbyshire’s Peak District National Park and is well served by transport links throughout the UK.

For further information or images please contact:

Liz Bee ([email protected])

Steve Houghton ([email protected])

Redbrick Communications, 68 St

James’s Street, Nottingham, NG1 6FJ

T: 0115 910 1500 www.redbrickcommunications.com

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