[1][2] Her father had a distinguished career serving with the 4th Light Dragoons during the Peninsular War, but ended active military service after the Battle of Salamanca (1812) and returned to England, where he was knighted by King William IV in 1831.

The Duchess lay injured on the grass until a passing doctor discovered the accident and helped return her to the Innes-Ker family seat of Floors Castle in Roxburghshire.

[10] Journeying for Balmoral later that year, Queen Victoria detoured from her normal route to visit the Duchess at Floors Castle that summer.

The Duchess of Roxburghe was present during an attempted assassination of Victoria in 1882, when the Scotsman Roderick Maclean fired his pistol before being seized by nearby pupils of Eton College.

[14] The London Standard described Victoria as being in deep grief, and Innes-Ker as "one of her Majesty's dearest, most valued, and most devoted friends, for over thirty years a Lady of the Bedchamber".