[citation needed] Her sister was Edythe Scott Grant, who married Viscount Gaston Charles de Breteuil in 1904.

"[4] She married George Devereux de Vere Capell, 7th Earl of Essex, at St Margaret's, Westminster on 14 December 1893.

[5] After the Earl's death, in 1916, Adele was rumoured to be engaged to the Duke of Connaught (a younger brother of King Edward VII, who became widowed himself in March 1917).

[citation needed] A portrait of Adele Capell by the English painter Edward Robert Hughes hangs in the Watford Museum.

[11] Another portrait, painted in 1906 by the American painter John Singer Sargent and entitled The Countess of Essex, currently hangs in The Museum of Fine Arts-Houston.