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

lady-in-waiting A lady-in-waiting or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom sh ...

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, 1s ...

and Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell. 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, her husband succeeded to the throne as King

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, and Alexandra became Queen Consort. 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

Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (28 February 1830 – 22 September 1908) was a British soldier, Liberal politician, courtier and agriculturalist. He was generally known as Sir Nigel Kingscote. Biography Kingscote was the son of ...

, 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

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. * 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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