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Lady Alexandra Naldera Metcalfe CBE (née Curzon; 20 March 1904 – 7 August 1995) was a British aristocrat. She was the third daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, and his first wife, the American mercantile heiress, Mary Victoria Leiter.
- Mary Leiter
Lady Curzon contributed to the design of the exquisitely...
- Mary Leiter
Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley [n 1] (née Curzon; 23 August 1898 – 16 May 1933), nicknamed "Cimmie", was a British aristocrat, politician and the first wife of the British Fascist politician Sir Oswald Mosley.
Lady Alexandra Naldera Metcalfe CBE (née Curzon; 20 March 1904 – 7 August 1995) was a British aristocrat. She was the third daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, and his first wife, the American mercantile heiress, Mary Victoria Leiter.
Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon was born on 20 March 1904. She was the daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st and last Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter. She married Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, son of Edward Metcalfe, on 21 July 1925.
- Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, MVO, MC
- Kedleston, Derbyshire, England
- British India
- March 20, 1904
- In America
- In England
- In India
- Private Life
- In Popular Culture
- Biographies
- Further Reading
Mary Victoria Leiter was born in Chicago, the eldest daughter of Mary Theresa (née Carver) and Levi Ziegler Leiter, the wealthy co-founder of Field and Leiter dry goods business, and later partner in the Marshall Field retail empire. On her father's side, she was of Swiss-German descent. Her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1881 and entered the ...
Mary was introduced to London society in 1890. She met a young man, George Curzon, a Conservative Member of Parliament who was thirty-five years old, had been representing Southport for eight years, and was heir to the Barony of Scarsdale. The position he had made for himself through his own talents was of more interest to her than his eventual inh...
Her husband accepted the position of Viceroy of India and was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Curzon of Kedleston in the summer of 1898 at age thirty-nine. As Vicereine of India, his wife held the highest official title in the Indian Empire that a woman could hold, as did Lady Wellesley, also an American wife of a prominent British man....
The Curzons had three daughters but no son, as much as Lord Curzon wished for one. Lady Curzon's demanding social responsibilities, the tropical climate, a prolonged near-fatal infection following a miscarriage, and fertility-related surgery eroded her health. Despite several trips to England to convalesce, her health continued to decline. Followin...
Mary Curzon and her three daughters are considered to be part of the inspiration for the fictional characters Lady Grantham and her three daughters, particularly in respect to the inability to produce a male heir, and the importance of a woman's virtue in the Downton Abbey television series written by Julian Fellowes and produced by ITV. Lady Curzo...
de Courcy, Anne (2003), The Viceroy's Daughters, The Lives of the Curzon Sisters, Harper Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-06-093557-XBradley, John, ed. (1986), Lady Curzon's India: Letters of a Vicereine, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 0-297-78701-2Nicolson, Nigel (1977), Lady Curzon, New York: Harper & Row, ISBN 0-297-77390-9, retrieved 14 March2007Thomas, Nicola J. (2004) Broadening the Boundaries of Biography and Geography: Lady Curzon, Vicereine of India 1898–1905, Journal of Historical GeographyThomas, Nicola J. (2006), "American Vicereine of India", in Lambert, David; Lester, Alan (eds.), Imperial Lives across the Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-84770-48 de ago. de 1995 · Lady Alexandra Metcalfe was the last surviving witness of the Duke of Windsor's wedding to Mrs Wallis Simpson in June 1937. She was born Alexandra Naldera Curzon in 1904, into circles of great...
9 de ago. de 2024 · Lady Alexandra Naldera Metcalfe, CBE (née Curzon; 20 March 1904 – 7 August 1995) was a British aristocrat. She was the third daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, and his first wife, the American mercantile heiress, Mary Victoria Leiter.
