Lady Emily Marie Kingscote (''née'' Curzon-Howe; 14 September 1836 – 9 December 1910) was a British courtier and part of the royal household as a

lady-in-waiting A lady-in-waiting (alternatively written lady in waiting) or court lady is a female personal assistant at a Royal court, court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking nobility, noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was o ...

to Princess

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when she was

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and later Queen.

Life

Lady Emily was one of ten children born to

Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (11 December 1796 – 12 May 1870), was a British peer and courtier. Background He was the third but eldest surviving son of the Hon. Penn Assheton Curzon (the eldest son of Assheton Curzon, 1 ...

, and Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell, daughter of the 6th Earl of Cardigan. Lady Emily served as

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, who was England's longest-serving

from 1863 to 1901. With the death of

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in 1901, the Prince of Wales succeeded to the throne as King

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, and Alexandra became

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. Lady Emily was re-appointed a Woman of the bedchamber to the Queen, and served as such until 1907. Lady Emily married on 5 February 1856 at Congerston,

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, becoming the second wife of Colonel Sir

Nigel Kingscote Colonel (United Kingdom), Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (28 February 1830 – 22 September 1908) was a British soldier, Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician, courtier and agriculturalist. He was generally known as Sir Nigel ...

, whose first wife had died in childbirth. They had two sons and two daughters: * Nigel Richard Fitzhardinge Kingscote b. 14 Feb 1857, d. 24 Nov 1921 * Harriet Maude Isabella Kingscote b. Mar 1860, d. 14 Mar 1906; married Arthur Wilson and was the mother of Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson. * Winifred Ida Kingscote b. 24 Apr 1862, d. 25 Oct 1938; married on 16 July 1879 Lord Rocksavage, later

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. * Albert Edward Leicester Fitzhardinge Kingscote b. 13 May 1865 Lady Emily died on 9 December 1910 at 74. (Her husband had predeceased her on 22 September 1908.) They are both buried in St. John the Baptist Churchyard, Kingscote, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, England.

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