Elizabeth Alicia Maria Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon (''née'' Wyndham; 29 November 1752 – 10 February 1826) was an English noblewoman and the wife of

Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon PC (20 August 1741 – 3 June 1811), known as The Lord Porchester from 1780 to 1793, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780 when he was raised to the peerage as Ba ...

. She was born in November 1752 as Lady Elizabeth Wyndham, the daughter of

Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, PC (19 August 171021 August 1763), of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, Petworth House in Sussex, and of Egremont House in Mayfair, London, was a British statesman who served as Secretary of State for the Sou ...

, and his wife, Alicia. She was baptised on New Year's Day 1753 at

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.''Westminster, London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1558–1812'' She married the Earl of Carnarvon on 15 July 1771, at

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, before he was raised to the peerage; he was then known as Henry Herbert, MP. She became Lady Porchester of Highclere in 1780 and a countess from 3 July 1793. In 1795 she was appointed a

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, then Princess of Wales and later, nominally, queen; she officially retained the position until Caroline's death, despite the princess's estrangement from her husband and absence from the country. The earl and countess had six children: * Lady Frances Herbert (died 1830), who married

Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie (31 August 1776 – 22 June 1840) was the first Earl of Ducie. He was the son of Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie, and his wife, the former Mary Provis. and was educated at Eton College and Ex ...

, and had children * Henry George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1772-1833), who succeeded his father in the earldom *Hon.

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(1774-1808), who married Hon. Bridget Augusta Byng, daughter of

John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (18 February 1743 – 8 January 1813), previously styled ''The Hon. John Byng'' for most of his lifetime (until 1812), was a British aristocrat and celebrated 18th-century diarist. Byng's fifteen extant diar ...

, and had one child *Very Rev. Hon. William Herbert (1778-1847), who married Hon. Letitia Dorothea Allen, daughter of

Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen Captain Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen (26 April 1728 – 1 February 1816), was an Irish peer. Life The son of Hon. Richard A. Allen and Dorothy Green, and grandson of John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen, he succeeded to the title of 5th Viscount ...

, and had children *Rev. Hon. George Herbert (1789-1825), who married Frances Head and had children *Hon. Algernon Herbert (1792-1855), who married Marianne Lempriere and had children A portrait of the countess and her son was painted by Sir

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. She died at

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, Sussex, England, aged 73.

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