Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The first earl died unmarried and childless in 1916, which resulted in the extinction of the barony created in 1898.

[4] However, he was succeeded in the other titles under the special remainder by his elder brother, Colonel Henry Kitchener, as second earl.

She is a lady-in-waiting to Princess Michael of Kent and is married to the actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist Lord Fellowes.

Fellowes publicly expressed his dissatisfaction that the proposals to change the rules of royal succession were not extended to peerages, which would have allowed his wife to succeed as 4th Countess on her uncle's death.