Her mother was the heiress Elizabeth Berkeley and her father was Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.

One of their sons, Lord William Robert Albanac Manners died when he was about ten in 1783.

[3] In 1791 she featured in a caricature by Isaac Cruikshank which showed various "Quornites" in "amorous conflagration" as they are forced to leave their burning building thus "Startling the game".

They are both wearing fashionable turbans and large ostrich feathers but the much taller figure is Rutland - the celebrated beauty and society hostess.

Her daughter is shown in a simpler gown with huge feathers that are trying to mitigate her shorter stature.