Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Ramsey was born on April 15, 1963, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Ramsay is the third child of Captain the Hon. Alexander Ramsay of Mar, the only son of His Royal Highness, Princess Patricia of Connaught, who renounced her royal title and style when she married then-Captain the Hon. Alexander Ramsay in February 1919, by his wife Flora Fraser.