Emily Marie Kingscote

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Emily Marie Kingscote
Lady Emily Marie Kingscote (née Curzon); Nigel Richard Fitzhardinge Kingscote.jpg
Lady Emily Marie Kingscote and her son
Nigel Richard Fitzhardinge Kingscote.
Photo from 1860 by Camille Silvy.
Born
Emily Marie Curzon

1836
DiedDecember 1910
NationalityEnglish
OccupationRoyal courtier
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1856; died 1908)​
ChildrenFour
Parents

Emily Marie Kingscote (1836 – December 1910) was part of England's royal household as a lady-in-waiting, Lady of the Bedchamber, to Princess Alexandra of Wales until 1856.

Life[]

'The Hon Emily Curzon painted at Rome, 1850-51' attribted to Roberto Bompiani

Lady Emily was one of ten children born to Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe and Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell.[1][2]

Lady Emily served as Lady of the Bedchamber to Alexandra of Denmark, who was England's longest serving Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901.[3] Then, in 1901, with the death of Queen Victoria and her husband's ascension to the throne as King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Alexandra became Queen Consort to the King.[4]

Lady Emily married on 5 February 1856 at Congerston, Leicestershire, England,[1] becoming the second wife of Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote,[5] whose first wife had died in childbirth. They had two sons and two daughters.[1]

  • Nigel Richard Fitzhardinge Kingscote b. 14 Feb 1857, d. 24 Nov 1921[6]
  • Harriet Maude Isabella Kingscote b. Mar 1860, d. 14 Mar 1906[7]
  • Winifred Ida Kingscote b. 24 Apr 1862, d. 25 Oct 1938[8]
  • Albert Edward Leicester Fitzhardinge Kingscote b. 13 May 1865

Her eldest daughter, Harriet, married Arthur Wilson and was the mother of Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson.[7] Emily's daughter Winifred married Lord Rocksavage, later Marquess of Cholmondeley, on 16 July 1879.[8]

Lady Emily died on 9 December 1910 at 74[9] (Her husband had predeceased her on 22 September 1908.[1]) They are both buried in St. John the Baptist Churchyard, Kingscote, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, England.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  2. ^ "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  3. ^ "National Portrait Gallery". NPG.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Battiscombe, Georgina (1969). Queen Alexandra (London: Constable) ISBN 0-09-456560-0
  5. ^ "London Gazette" (PDF). 1902-11-09. Retrieved 2021-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  7. ^ a b "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  8. ^ a b "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  9. ^ a b "Lady Emily Marie Curzon - Howe Kingscote..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
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