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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.
[14] [15] Elizabeth Bourchier's stepson, Sir Michael Stanhope, was beheaded on Tower Hill on 26 February 1552. [11] Monument to Elizabeth Bourchier's daughter, Anne Stanhope, in Westminster Abbey. By Sir Edward Stanhope Elizabeth Bourchier had a daughter, Anne Stanhope, who married, as his second wife, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. [16]
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 ...
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.
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]
English: Anne Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (1802–1885) was known as a political confidante. Date: 1840: ... St Martin's Place. London, , WC2H 0HE United Kingdom
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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.