Rose Cecilia "Rosie" Stancer (née Clayton; born 25 January 1960) is a British explorer and polar adventurer.
Youth, education, family
Rosie Stancer attended Butterstone House School in Scotland and then Heathfield School, Ascot. She holds an honorary degree from the University of Essex and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
She is the daughter of Lady Mary Cecilia Leveson-Gower (1917–2014) and Sir Samuel Clayton. Her maternal grandparents were Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon (an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), and William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville, naval commander, making her a first cousin, once removed, of Queen Elizabeth II. Her paternal grandfather was Brigadier-General Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, British Army intelligence officer and colonial administrator. Both her grandfathers died before she was born.
On 9 July 1993, she married William Wordie Stancer, with whom she has one son. Her husband’s grandfather was polar explorer James Wordie. Her own grandfather, 4th Earl Granville, had polar ambitions too, but was deemed too tall.
