[1] Born into an exiled Roman Catholic family, she spent her adolescence and early years of marriage on the continent.

The pair were socially active, using their position as the highest-ranking peers in the kingdom to promote religious tolerance.

[1] An ardent Catholic, she was very fond of French and Italian fashion and styles, employing Giovanni Battista Borra to decorate that residence.

[4] The childless couple had decided to rebuild the house for the benefit of their nephew Thomas Howard, heir presumptive to the dukedom.

According to the astronomer William Wales, she had asked the explorer Captain James Cook to name an island after her.