#british nobility

[madeleineengland]

Lady Mary Crawley.

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Mary Hamilton Bruce, Countess of Elgin (c. 1804) by François Gérard. Scottish National Gallery.

[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT: Lady Violet Manners wore the Rutland Tiara for her wedding to William Lindesay-Bethune, Viscount Garnock, at St Mary the Virgin's Church in Bottesford, Leicestershire, United Kingdom on 21 June 2025.

[onefail-at-atime]

There's just something about the granddaughter of Irish immigrants saving an English dukedom from financial ruin that just ... idk. But it's something.

[cutetophy]

So... I decided to write a Miromabby Vampires AU.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[tom-von-thun]

Manor House, UK

[portrait-paintings]

Evelyn Fitzmaurice, Duchess of Devonshire (1870-1960)

Artist: Edward Irvine Halliday (British, 1902-1984)

Date: 1950

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

The Duchess of Devonshire is here shown repairing tapestries in the High Great Chamber at Hardwick. Her resigned demeanour and slight frame, set against the monumentality of the room, convey something of the overwhelming task ahead of her, and the responsibility of looking after an historic home.

Lady Evelyn Fitzmaurice was the daughter of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. She married, on 30 July, 1892, Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1870-1960). She bore him seven children.

[thebaroquehuman]

1658-1660 Elizabeth Capel, Countess of Carnarvon - Peter Lely