This is a list of notable singers, dancers and actors who married titled Britons (nobility and royalty).[1][2][3][4][5]
- This list includes only those who contracted marriages.
- Anastasia Robinson and the Earl of Peterborough (1724)
- Lavinia Fenton and the Duke of Bolton (1751)
- Elizabeth Farren and the Earl of Derby (1797)[a]
- Louisa Brunton and Earl Craven (1807)
- Mary "Polly" Bolton and Lord Thurlow (1813)
- Elizabeth O'Neill and William Wrixon-Becher (1819)[b]
- Mary Anne Paton and Lord William Lennox (1824)
- Harriet Mellon and the Duke of St Albans (1827)[c]
- Maria Foote and the Earl of Harrington (1831)
- Catherine "Kitty" Stephens and the Earl of Essex (1838)
- Frances Braham and Earl Waldegrave (1840)
- Mrs Nisbett and Sir William Boothby, 8th Baronet (1844)[6]
- Sarah Fairbrother and the Duke of Cambridge (1847)[d]
- Julia Fortescue and Baron Gardner (1848)
- Emily Saunders and Sir William Don (1857)
- Harriette Webster and Baron Burnham (1862)
- Anne Sheppey and Viscount Hinton (1869)
- Kate Cooke and the Earl of Euston (1871)
- "Dolly Tester" and the profligate Marquess of Ailesbury (1884)
- Belle Bilton and the Earl of Clancarty (1889)
- Constance "Connie" Gilchrist and the seventh Earl of Orkney (1892)
- May Yohé and Lord Francis Hope (1894)
- Rosie Boote and the Marquis of Headfort (1901)
- Anna Robinson and the Earl of Rosslyn (1905)
- Denise Orme and Baron Churston (1907)
- Sylvia Storey and the 7th Earl Poulett (1908)
- Ethel Kendall[e] and Hon. Maurice Henry Nelson Hood (1908)
- May Etheridge and the 7th Duke of Leinster (1913)
- Jose Collins and Lord Robert Edward Innes-Ker (1920)
- Gertie Millar and the 2nd Earl of Dudley (1924)
- Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes (1925)
- Sylvia Ashley and Lord Ashley (1927)
- June Tripp and Baron Inverclyde (1929)
- Adele Astaire and Lord Charles Cavendish (1932)
- Irma de Malkhozouny and the Duke of Leeds (1933)
- "Mimi" Forde Pigott and the Earl of Suffolk (1934)
- Oriel Ross and the 8th Earl Poulett (1935)
- Virginia Cherrill and Earl of Jersey (1937)
- Sylvia Ashley and Baron Stanley of Alderley (1944)
- Denise Orme and the 7th Duke of Leinster (1946)
- Shirin Berry and Baron Moynihan (1958)
- Maureen Swanson and the 4th Earl of Dudley (1961)
- Jamie Lee Curtis and The Hon. Christopher Guest (1984) (Guest later inherited his father's title of Lord Haden-Guest)
- Tracy-Louise Ward and the Duke of Beaufort (1987)
- Louise Robey and Earl of Burford (1994)
- A. J. Langer and the Earl of Devon (2004)
- Sophie Winkleman and Lord Frederick Windsor (2009)
- Meghan Markle and the Duke of Sussex (2018)
References
edit- ^ "Actresses Raised to the Peerage". The Australian Star. No. 1241. New South Wales, Australia. 21 November 1891. p. 9. Retrieved 29 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Peers who have Married Actresses". The Maitland Weekly Mercury. Vol. 7128, no. 391. New South Wales, Australia. 29 June 1901. p. 11. Retrieved 26 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Actresses and Singers Who Have Married Noblemen". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. Vol. L, no. 7077. New South Wales, Australia. 31 August 1893. p. 2. Retrieved 29 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Literature". The Leader (Melbourne). No. 3000. Victoria, Australia. 5 July 1913. p. 25. Retrieved 29 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Bulloch, J. M. (10 August 1935). "Peers who have married players". Notes and Queries. CLXIX: 92–94. doi:10.1093/nq/CLXIX.aug10.92.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Notes
edit- ^ Farren became mother to Lady Wilton
- ^ He became first of the Wrixon-Becher baronets
- ^ She had wealth in addition to her other endowments, being the widow of Thomas Coutts
- ^ In contravention of the Royal Marriages Act
- ^ In 1925 granted the rank of the widow of a viscount by a Royal warrant of precedence