She may have shunned the spotlight, yet that did not stop the Duchess of Kent from being a trailblazer within British aristocracy.
Katharine, married to Queen Elizabeth II's cousin Prince Edward, was the oldest member of the Royal Family prior to her death this week aged 92.
The self-proclaimed 'Yorkshire lass' also had the accolade of being the first person without a title to marry into the Royal Family for more than a century.
But it was for her decision to convert to Catholicism - becoming the first royal in more than 300 years to do so - that would mark the duchess as an individual unafraid to challenge tradition.
Described at the time as 'a long-pondered personal decision by the duchess', Katharine was formally received into the Catholic church in January 1994.
