The mother of those charming and accomplished daughters, Lady Violet Manners - who lately married the Hon. Hugo Charteris, eldest son of Lord and Lady Elcho - Lady Marjorie Manners, and Lady Diana Manners, was Miss Marion Lindsay before her marriage to the Duke, in
1882. As Lady Granby, she achieved much success as an artist and sculptor, having been devoted to art from girlhood, and much of her skill with pen and pencil has been inherited by her daughters, who have turned out some excellent pictures, in addition to winning popularity as amateur actresses. A great friend of Royalty, the Duchess in her early days often played in the nurseries at Windsor with the Duchess of Argyll and Princess Henry of Battenberg, and one of her most precious possessions is a portrait of herself painted by Queen Victoria in the autumn of 1877. It represents the sitter as a graceful girl in a soft black dinner gown, and is signed "V. R. 1877." Altogether, the Duke and Duchess have had five children, their first boy, Lord Haddon, dying in childhood. At Belvoir Castle, the magnificent home of the Rutland family, is to be seen a bust of the boy in marble, executed by the Duchess.
The Duchess of Rutland