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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.
Anne Boleyn: Natalie Dormer (2007–2008) Anne Boleyn: Episode 1.01 Episode 2.10 (4.10 Dream Sequence) Daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, and sister of George and Mary Boleyn. Anne was sent to be a lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon.
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 ...
The Tudors is a British-Canadian historical fiction television series set primarily in 16th-century England, created and written by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime. The series was a collaboration among American, British, and Canadian producers, and was filmed mostly in Ireland.
Stanhope had earlier been married to Adelina Clifton, the daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton, of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, [11] by whom he had two sons, Richard Stanhope (d. 21 January 1529), [12] who married Anne Strelley (d. 12 October 1554), [13] and Sir Michael Stanhope, who married Anne Rawson. Sir Edward Stanhope fought in 1487 at the Battle ...
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.
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]
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.