The tragic story of Lady Grizel Wolfe-Murray

Amongst the many visitors at the Maquis in Valescure were Malcolm Victor Alexander Wolfe-Murray and his new bride, Lady Grizel, daughter of Patrick Boyle, the Earl of Glasgow. Eleonore de Chabannes was related to the Earl and spent time as a child, at Kelburn Castle, at Fairlie, near Largs in the west of Scotland. She recalled playing in the dungeons.
Nancie remembers the happy couple laughing when Grizel sat on her new husband's knee and the deckchair he was sitting in collapsed. This was probably in 1935.
Sadly this marriage was not to be a happy one. Nancie told us that Grizel had been killed as she flew back from Cairo, pregnant with her third child, when her plane was shot down over the Mediterranean. I decided to check out the story. True enough, Grizel had been to visit her husband who was in the Black Watch, serving in Egypt.  She was travelling home to Britain, however, on board a ship called  the " Laconia" . This name was familiar to me.
It was 1942 and the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine, off the coast of Africa. Grizel survived the sinking and got into a lifeboat with others but sadly died before they could be rescued. The German submarine Captain had tried to rescue some of them but apparently it was bombed by some 'trigger-happy Americans in planes'. The story was told in a play called 'Now is the Hour' written in 2008 and performed at the Edinburgh Festival. It was based on the memoirs of a survivor, a nurse called Doris Hawkins. The author had uncovered a family secret when, after the death of his Mother he found some letters.
He knew that he had an uncle who died during the war but this uncle was, we gather, the lover of Lady Grizel Wolfe-Murray and threw himself into the sea after she had had died. Such a sad story.
Last night on Who Do You Think You Are we had the story of the sinking of the  "Lancastria" and we were told that Churchill kept the news from the public. I suspect the same thing may have happened at the time, with the "Laconia".
Lady Grizel Wolfe-Murray V.A.D  is commemorated on the Fairlie War Memorial along with her brother, Captain the Hon. Patrick James Boyle, S.G. who died in 1946.