Scottish noblewoman who was the Lady Laird of Ballindalloch Castle and, later, the first female Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire.
She was the daughter of Sir Ewan George Macpherson-Grant, the 6th Baronet of Ballindalloch, and she inherited her father's castle and estate upon his 1983 death.
She began serving on the board of the Children's Hospice Association of Scotland in 1986.
She and her husband, Oliver Henry Russell, had two sons and a daughter between 1968 and 1972.
She, like fellow UK citizen Delia Smith, wrote cookbooks. Russell's two published cookbooks are: I Love Food and I Love Food 2.
