Lady Beth Shan Ling (Ling- Ling) Douglas

07/08/1999 — 07/03/2018
A brief biography

Beth Shan Ling (Ling- Ling) Douglas


Daughter of David Harrington Angus Douglas and Hsueh-Chun Liao. .

Born in 1999, the forty-seventh year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and died aged eighteen in the sixty-sixth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II

Biography


Lady Beth Shan Ling (Ling- Ling) Douglas was born on 7 August 1999. She was the daughter of David Harrington Angus Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry and Hsueh-Chun Liao She died on 7 March 2018 at age 18, from a drug overdose


Today's Daily Telegraph has a report of the inquest into the death of Lady Beth Douglas last March. She was the youngest daughter of the present Marquess of QUEENSBERRY and the child of his third marriage to Hsueh-Chun Liao.

The Sun, Daily Mirror and Daily Mail also carry reports with varying degrees of sensationalism

Extracts from the Telegraph report - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/11/boyfriend-aristocrats-daughter-admits-high-save-drugs-death/

The boyfriend of an aristocrat’s daughter who died after a two-day drug and alcohol binge has admitted he was too high on drugs himself to save her.
Jenan Karagoli, 21, has described how he tried to resuscitate 18-year-old Lady Beth Douglas, the youngest daughter of the Marquess of Queensberry, after finding her unconscious at a house party with needle marks in her arm.

He had been dating the talented young violinist for ten months and was confronted by her grieving father David Douglas, the 88-year-old 12th marquess, days after her funeral.



Lady Beth, who was known to friends and family as Ling Ling, had a history of drug abuse and self harm and was being treated for a range of mental health problems. She was sectioned for six months when she was 17.

The inquest recorded Lady Beth's cause of death as a cardiac respiratory failure and cocaine and heroin poisoning. She was cremated in a Buddhist ceremony in London.

Lord Queensberry has been married three times and had eight children. Lady Beth was the only daughter of his most recent marriage to Taiwanese artist Hsueh-Chun Liao.


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