Lady Frances Villiers (née Howard; ca.1633 – 30 November 1677) was an English noblewoman and a governess to the future Queens Mary II and Anne.
[1] Frances was the youngest daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Home (daughter of George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar).
Their children were: Frances became governess to the two young princesses, the daughters of the Duke of York (the future King James II of England) in 1669, after the death of their mother, Anne Hyde, whose father, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, was a friend of the Villiers family.
[8] She did not approve of the nature of princess Mary's correspondence with Frances Aspley.
[6] Frances died of smallpox at St James's Palace, where the household of the princesses was based.