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Olga Kennard
British crystallographer (1924-2023)
Isabella Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford
British courtier
Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland
British duchess; Lady of the Bedchamber (1716-1776)
Walburga, Lady Paget
German diarist, writer and friend of Queen Victoria (1839-1929)
Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland
English duchess, governess to Princess Victoria, the later Queen Victoria and cultivator of exotic plants (1787-1866)
Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington
English noblewoman
Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso
English noblewoman
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan
Wife of Aga Khan III (1906–2000)
Virginia Bottomley
British politician (born 1948)
Charlotte Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
British noble (1731-1754)
Alice de la Pole
English noble
Queen Sylvia of Sarawak
Queen Consort of Sarawak (1917 - 1946)
Jane Lumley
English noblewoman and translator (1537–1578)
Miriam González Durántez
Spanish lawyer
Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury
English noblewoman (1407-1462)
Mary Lefkowitz
American classical philologist (1935-)
Effie Bancroft
British actress and manager (1840–1921)
Maud Green, Lady Parr
English noble
Barbara Judge
American-British lawyer and businesswoman
Mary Anne Disraeli
Wife of British Prime Minister
Aileen Fox
English archaeologist (1907-2005)
Norma Major
wife of British prime minister John Major
Edith Bernal Blake
Irish painter, botanical collector and amateur lepidopterist (1846–1926)
Priscilla Fane, Countess of Westmorland
British linguist and artist
Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany
Duchess consort of Brittany
Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
Wife of the Duke of Wellington (1773–1831)
Claire van Kampen
English director and composer (1953–2025)
Gertrude Elliott
American actress (1874–1950)
Katherine Mortimer, Countess of Warwick
English countess
Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote
British peer (1932-2022)
Edith Villiers
wife of Edward Bulwer Lytton, later court-attendant
Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
British duchess (1891-1943)
Anne Case
American economist
Lucy Neville-Rolfe
British businesswoman and peer (born 1953)
Sue Birtwistle
British television producer
Princess Katarina of Serbia
Serbian Royal
Audrey Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff
British councillor, wife of James Callaghan
Mary Impey
British naturalist, ornithologist and patron of the arts
Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge
British artist (1887–1963)
Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon
British slavery abolitionist (1869-1955)
Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
British courtier (1850-1932)
Eleanor Beauchamp
Baroness de Ros and Duchess of Somerset
Helen Maud Holt
English actress (- 1937)
Elisabeth Murdoch
Australian philanthropist and mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch (1909-2012)
Viqar un Nisa Noon
Pakistani political leader
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
British aristocrat, naturalist, botanist, and collector (1715-1785)
Alice Goodman
American poet, librettist and Anglican priest
Elizabeth de Badlesmere, Countess of Northampton
English noble
Artemis Cooper
British writer
Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester
English noble
Gertie Millar
British actor and singer (1879–1952)
Anne Woodville
English noblewoman; younger sister of Elizabeth Woodville
Philippa Perry
British psychotherapist and author
Anna Bishop
British opera singer (1810–1884)
Margaret Butler
Irish noblewoman
Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville
daughter of Sir Piers de Geneville and Joan of Lusignan
Marilyn Butler
British literary critic & academic
Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey
English countess
Sylvia Hermon
British politician (born 1955)
Florentia Sale
British writer (1790-1853)