Explore the captivating life of the Duchess of Devonshire and discover the intriguing stories behind her title. Learn about her influence, style, and the legacy she left behind.
View Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), three-quarter-length, in a pale blue dress and black hat After Gainsborough Thomas; oil on canvas; 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
. Deborah Vivien (née Mitford), Cavendish Her Grace The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire the occasion- her 90th birthday~born March 30,1920 photograph-Bruce Weber place-Chatsworth. dress-Oscar de la Renta. art work-Birthday cards current endeavor - Attic Sale author of the new book WAIT FOR ME -her own story. just one of many published books: Chatsworth: The House The Estate: A View from Chatsworth The Farmyard at Chatsworth Treasures of Chatsworth: A Private View The Garden at Chatsworth…
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who has died aged 94, was the youngest and last of the celebrated Mitford sisters, and the chatelaine of Chatsworth, the “Palace of the Peak” in Derbyshire, which from the 1950s onwards she made into both a glorious public spectacle and, really for the first time, a consummately stylish private home.
Henrietta Vernon was born in the most fortunate of circumstances. Not only was she an aristocrat (grand-daughter of the famous politician Thomas Wentworth) but she was a noted beauty. Therefore, it may come as no surprise that she was married very early in life. She met her future husband in one of the most cinematically romantic of ways, during a rainstorm. Richard Grosvenor, the 1st Baron Grovesnor captured the young girl's fancy despite the 14 year age gap between them. They married…
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