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She is the eldest child of David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland, and Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland. [1] Lady Violet studied at Queen Margaret's School, York. In May 2023 Lady Violet launched HeritageXplore, the first platform to unite Britain’s independently owned historic castles, palaces, and manors. HeritageXplore offers an immersive ...
Emilia Anne Browne. Marion Margaret Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (née Lindsay; 7 March 1856 – 22 December 1937) was a British artist and noblewoman. A granddaughter of the 24th Earl of Crawford, she married Henry Manners in 1882. She was styled the Marchioness of Granby from 1888 to 1906, when Manners succeeded as Duke of Rutland.
Lady Violet Catherine Benson (née Manners; 24 April 1888 – 23 December 1971) was an English aristocrat, artist and socialite. Lady Violet was considered a beauty and was the subject of drawings by George Frederic Watts and John Singer Sargent , [1] the latter exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1916. [2]
He has a younger brother, Lord Edward Manners, a sister, Lady Teresa Manners, and a half-sister, Lady Charlotte Manners. [1] Rutland's ancestral home is Belvoir Castle in the northern part of Leicestershire. The Sunday Times Rich List 2013 estimated his personal fortune at £125 million, but he had to sell a painting to keep Belvoir Castle ...
Charles John Robert Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland (1919–1999) Captain Lord John Martin Manners (10 September 1922 – 11 November 2001), married and had a daughter. Lord Roger David Manners (23 September 1925 – 1 October 2017), married and had a son and two daughters. He succeeded to the dukedom in 1925. In 1927, he "realized his boyhood ...
Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland. Rachel Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland (née Watkins, born 2 September 1963) is a British noblewoman and podcaster. She is the daughter of a farmer from Wales and married David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland in 1992. She separated from him in September 2012.
Violet Crawley (The Dowager Countess of Grantham) (played by Maggie Smith) (1841 [1] –1928) is Robert's mother and widow of the previous earl. Violet, portrayed as a matriarchal figure and quick of wit despite her age, symbolises the "old world" and order of the pre–First World War days. During and after the war, Violet remains a strong ...
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