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Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (née Lady Katherine Grey; 25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568) [1] [2] was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey.. A granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, she emerged as a prospective successor to her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, before incurring Queen Elizabeth's wrath by secretly marrying Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford.
Countess of Hertford is a title given to the wife of the Earl of Hertford. Women who have held the title include: Isabel Marshal (1200–1240) Maud de Lacy, Countess of Hertford and Gloucester (1223-1289) Lady Katherine Grey (1540-1568) Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond (1578-1639) Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1699–1754)
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (née Thynne; 10 May 1699 – 7 July 1754), later the Duchess of Somerset, was a British courtier and the wife of Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford, who became the 7th Duke of Somerset in 1748. She was also known as a poet, literary patron and woman of letters. [1]
Lady Katherine Grey (25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568) – married Henry Herbert, Lord Herbert and later Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford; Lady Mary Grey (c. 20 April 1545 – 20 April 1578) – married Thomas Keyes; Frances's residence at Bradgate was a minor palace in the Tudor style.
Seymour was the son of Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (who predeceased his own father) by his wife Honora Rogers.He was the grandson of Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, by his wife Lady Katherine Grey, a sister of Lady Jane Grey, "The Nine Days Queen", which thus gave him a distant claim to the throne through Katherine's descent from Mary Tudor, younger sister of King Henry VIII.
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His son Sir George Francis Seymour (1787–1870), admiral of the fleet, began his naval career by serving under Nelson; in 1818 he became Sergeant-at-arms in the House of Lords, a post which he retained till 1841, when he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral and appointed a lord of the admiralty; his eldest son, Francis George Hugh Seymour ...
While Seymour’s second cover sees her covered up in an explosion of lime-green feathers from Saint Laurent, fellow ‘90s supermodel and August cover star Schiffer remains undressed for her two ...