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Elizabeth, Countess of Devonshire. Elizabeth Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire (1619 – 19 November 1689) was the wife of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire . She was one of the twelve children of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury of Hatfield house, and his wife, the former Lady Catherine Howard of Audley End House, member of the ...
Beauty and leader of Whig society; first wife of 5th Duke of Devonshire Georgiana Spencer became a leader of Whig society. Famed for her beauty and notorious for her ménage à trois with the 5th Duke of Devonshire and her eventual successor as Duchess, Lady Elizabeth Forster.
Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish CVO (24 April 1926 – 15 September 2018) was a British noblewoman who was a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth II and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret from the late 1940s until the latter's death in 2002. Lady Elizabeth was the daughter of Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, and his wife ...
13 de may. de 2014 · In 1809, three years after Georgiana died, Bess married Cavendish to succeed her friend as Duchess of Devonshire. She herself was widowed just two years later and eventually left England behind and went to Rome, where she lived happily as a patron of the arts. On the anniversary of Georgiana's death, Bess herself passed away and was returned to ...
DF11/1/1 Letters to Elizabeth Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire from Lady Sydney Morgan c.1820 Item A small number of letters sent to Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, by Lady Sydney Morgan c.1820. The letters are undated, and the attributed date based on context. 9 letters DF11/1/2 Letter sent to [Elizabeth Cavendish], Duchess ...
Elizabeth Christiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, society hostess and patron of the arts, was born Elizabeth Hervey in 1757 at Horringer, Suffolk. Her parents were Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803), and Elizabeth Davers (1730-1800). She was known for most her life as Lady Elizabeth Foster, Bess to her friends.
5 de sept. de 2022 · Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, by Thomas Gainsborough,1783. National Gallery of Art, Washington. After suffering many miscarriages, Georgiana threw herself into other pursuits: she wrote a novel, became a passionate advocate and campaigner for the whig party and entered into a complex romantic relationship with Lady Elizabeth Foster, who was also her husband’s mistress.
