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The Duchess of Richmond is the wife of the Duke of Richmond, an extant title in the Peerage of England that has been created four times, originally in 1525.
Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (née Lady Charlotte Gordon; 20 September 1768 – 5 May 1842) [1] was a Scottish aristocrat and peeress best known as the hostess of the famed ball held in Brussels on the eve of the Battle of Quatre Bras.
Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (8 July 1647 [1] – 15 October 1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond (née Cadogan; 18 September 1705 – 25 August 1751), was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline from 1724 to 1737. She was the mother of the famous Lennox sisters .
The Duchess of Richmond's Ball was a ball hosted by Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond in Brussels on 15 June 1815, the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras. Charlotte's husband Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond , was in command of a reserve force in Brussels, which was protecting that city in case Napoleon Bonaparte invaded.
Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond. The match was a triumph for the Boleyn family as the Duchess was a former member of Queen Anne's household, and a staunch advocate of reform. It was also a very advantageous match for the Duchess as with no legitimate male heir to the throne, the Duke was seen at the time as a likely future king.
In May 1946, Duchess of Richmond arrived at the Govan yard of Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering for her overhaul and refit. Upon completion she was renamed Empress of Canada on 12 July 1947 and sailed on Canadian Pacific's first post-war Liverpool–Montreal sailing four days later.
Anne Lennox, Duchess of Richmond (1671 – 9 December 1722), formerly Anne Brudenell, was the wife of two English noblemen: first, Henry Belasyse, 2nd Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, and second, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond. She was the mother of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.