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Biography

Fitzalan-Howard was born in Mayfield and Five Ashes, East Sussex, to middle-class parents. Her father, Desmond James Cecil Roberts, was a general practitioner. She moved to London when she was eighteen years old and began working for a recruitment company, eventually serving as an associate director. She met Lord Gerald Fitzalan-Howard, the youngest son of Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk and Anne Constable-Maxwell, at a wedding in 1988. Roberts married Lord Gerald in December 1990. She and her husband have three children. Through her marriage she is a sister-in-law of the 18th Duke of Norfolk, Edward Fitzalan-Howard. As the wife of a younger son of a British duke, Roberts is styled in the feminine form of her husband's title, as Lady Gerald, and not with her own name, which is reserved for the daughters of high-ranking peers. In 1991, Lady Gerald and her husband moved from London to

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. She runs the estate alongside her husband. She had to sell off family property, including furniture, paintings, silverware, and family heirlooms, to raise over one million pounds to fund reconstruction on the house and open it up to tourists and for private events and filming. She remodeled the family's private apartments inside of Carlton Towers, and works as the furniture buyer and interior designer for reconstructive projects. In March 2014 she opened a cookery school at Carlton. As lady of the manor, Lady Gerald hosts guests at Carlton Towers for teas, dinners, and other events. Lady Gerald was a regular cast member of the

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