Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard
Emma Fitzalan-Howard | |
|---|---|
| Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard | |
| Born | Emma Georgina Egerton Roberts Mayfield and Five Ashes East Sussex, England |
| Noble family | Howard (by marriage) |
| Spouse(s) | Lord Gerald Fitzalan-Howard |
| Issue | Arthur Fitzalan-Howard Florence Fitzalan-Howard Grace Fitzalan-Howard |
| Father | Desmond James Cecil Roberts |
Emma Georgina Egerton Fitzalan-Howard (née Roberts), styled by courtesy as Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard, is an English aristocrat and the châtelaine of Carlton Towers.
Biography
Fitzalan-Howard was born in Mayfield and Five Ashes, East Sussex, to middle-class parents.[1] Her father, Desmond James Cecil Roberts, was a general practitioner. She moved to London when she was eighteen years old and began working for a recruitment company, eventually serving as an associate director.[2]
She met Lord Gerald Fitzalan-Howard, the youngest son of Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk and Anne Constable-Maxwell, at a wedding in 1988. Roberts married Lord Gerald in December 1 1990.[3] She and her husband have three children.
Through her marriage she is a sister-in-law of the 18th Duke of Norfolk, Edward Fitzalan-Howard. As the wife of a younger son of a British duke, Roberts is styled in the feminine form of her husband's title, as Lady Gerald, and not with her own name, which is reserved for the daughters of high-ranking peers.[2] In 1991, Lady Gerald and her husband moved from London to
Lady Gerald was a regular cast member of the Sky Atlantic documentary reality television series Weekend Aristocrats, which featured working class and middle-class people staying at private country homes and engaging with members of the British nobility and gentry.[8] The series was later screened on Netflix.
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- ^ a b c d "I'm Lady of the Manor, but our life is nothing like Downton." Thestar.co.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ "An Invitation to Carlton Towers". British Heritage. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ "My Yorkshire: Lord Gerald Fitzalan Howard". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ Adams, Stephen (30 October 2009). "Aristocratic family swaps silver for lead in Sotheby's sale". Retrieved 2 April 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "Yorkshire stately home which starred in costume drama opens doors to corporate world". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ Pritchard, Emma-Louise (25 October 2017). "You can now channel royalty in a 3-day tour of ITV's 'Victoria' filming locations in North Yorkshire". Country Living. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ "Weekend Aristocrats: Season 1 (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Warner Bros. Retrieved 13 April 2019.