[2] She was the youngest daughter of 16 children of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, the incumbent Bishop of Carlisle, and his wife, Lady Anne Leveson-Gower.

On 12 September 1835, when Princess Victoria visited Harewood House in Yorkshire with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, she attended the local church service.

To live in the midst of holy people; to know that nothing profane can approach you; to be certain that a Dissenter can no more be found in the palace, than a snake in Ireland, or ripe fruit in Scotland.

To have your society strong and undiluted by the laity to bid adieu to human learning; to feast on the Canons and to revel in the Thirty nine articles!

Georgiana's husband had been given £500, made Lieutenant-Colonel and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1842 after bringing the Treaty of Nanking back to England.