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Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Stanhope; before 1512 – 16 April 1587) was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500–1552), who held the office of Lord Protector during the first part of the reign of their nephew King Edward VI. The Duchess was briefly the most powerful woman in England.
English: Anne Seymour, née Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset and wife of Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset Deutsch: Anne Seymour, geborene Stanhope, Herzogin von Somerset und Ehefrau von Sir Edward, 1.
Anne Stanhope's husband was considered a wastrel, who spent much of his time asleep in Bretby Hall and let his lands at Bretby to go to waste. He died in June 1866, aged 61, and was succeeded by their son, George. Like her sister Selina, Countess of Bradford, Anne was an intimate friend of Benjamin Disraeli. After they had both been widowed ...
Thomas Gainsborough, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield, 1777 or 1778. 221 x 157.5 cm. Private collection since 1959. The portrait was held in the collection of the Stanhope family, passing by inheritance from its completion until 1923, when it was acquired by Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, sixth earl of Carnarvon. [7]
Anne Stanhope (Anne Thistlethwaite), Countess of Chesterfield (1759–1798), first wife of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield. Henrietta Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield, second wife of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield. Anne Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (1802–1885), wife of George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield.
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Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache (21 September 1561 – July 1612) was an English nobleman who had a theoretically strong claim to the throne of England through his mother, Lady Katherine Grey, but his legitimacy was questioned.
The Stanhope family is an English aristocratic family now headed by the Earl of Harrington. The Earls of Chesterfield previously headed the family until the extinction of the male line of that branch in 1967.