Lady Emily Kingscote

'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 Woman of the Bedchamber to Alexandra of Denmark, who was England's longest serving Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901.[3] With the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, her husband succeeded to the throne as King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and Alexandra became Queen Consort.[4] Lady Emily was re-appointed a Woman of the bedchamber to the Queen,[5] and served as such until 1907.

Lady Emily married on 5 February 1856 at Congerston, Leicestershire, England,[1] becoming the second wife of Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote,[6] 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[7]
• Harriet Maude Isabella Kingscote b. Mar 1860, d. 14 Mar 1906; married Arthur Wilson and was the mother of Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson.[8]
• Winifred Ida Kingscote b. 24 Apr 1862, d. 25 Oct 1938; married on 16 July 1879 Lord Rocksavage, later Marquess of Cholmondeley.[9]
• Albert Edward Leicester Fitzhardinge Kingscote b. 13 May 1865

Lady Emily died on 9 December 1910 at 74[10] (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.[10]