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Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne and 8th Lady Nairne (née de Flahaut; 16 May 1819 – 26 June 1895) was a British peeress. Born in Edinburgh, she was the eldest daughter of the French general and statesman, Charles, Comte de Flahaut by his wife, Margaret.
Fiona Mary Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, DL ( née Merritt; born 3 October 1954), previously known professionally as Fiona Shelburne, is a British aristocrat, socialite and interior designer. Since 2022, she has served as a Queen's Companion to Queen Camilla .
9 de mai. de 2023 · The Marchioness of Lansdowne, 68, is the wife of Charles Maurice Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne. An interior designer known professionally as Fiona Shelburne, Lady Lansdowne has been a close friend of Queen Camilla since Her Majesty’s first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles .
She was also a granddaughter of the Prince de Talleyrand. On 1 November 1843, at the British embassy in Vienna, she married Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, then-Earl of Shelburne. They had three children: Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (1845–1927), later 5th Marquess of Lansdowne.
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Petty-Fitzmaurice was the only son of Lord Charles Mercer Nairne, the second son of Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. His father was killed in action in 1914 while on active service in the First World War, and his mother, the former Lady Violet Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, later married secondly John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of H...
Lansdowne became a Justice of the Peace for Perthshire in 1950 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 1952. In 1957 and 1958 he was a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip) and then was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office between 1958 and 1962 and Minister of State for Commonwealth and Colonial Affairs between 1962 and 1964. Ef...
Lansdowne was married four times. On 18 March 1938 he married firstly Barbara Dempsey Chase (1918–1965), only child of Harold Stuart Chase (1890–1970), a real-estate investor of Santa Barbara, California, and Detroit, Michigan, and his wife, née Gertrude Boyer. The first Lady Lansdowne died on 18 February 1965, from injuries sustained in a shotgun ...
Explore the History of the Lansdowne Family. The Fitzmaurices, of Norman origin, settled in Ireland in the Twelfth century. In 1692, the marriage of Thomas Fitzmaurice and Anne Petty, the only daughter of the scientist and philosopher, Sir William Petty (1623-1687) transformed the family fortunes. In 1751 their son, John Fitzmaurice (1706-1761) ...
6 de mai. de 2023 · Society. Heritage. Queen Camilla Will Have Two Coronation Ladies in Attendance. Camilla's sister Annabel Elliot and Camilla's close friend Lady Lansdowne will be by her side on May 6. By Emily...
