Winifred, Lady Strickland

In the wake of the Dutch invasion, she was among the servants who secretly accompanied Mary of Modena and the prince of Wales to France in December 1688.

[1] Sir Thomas and Lady Strickland remained courtiers at the royal court in exile at St Germain-en-Laye, Winifred now responsible for the prince's upbringing.

[1] After Sir Thomas's death in 1694, Winifred returned to court and resumed her task as the prince's governess until he reached the age of seven.

She was an early patron of the portraitist Alexis Simon Belle, and acquired an important collection of portraits of the Jacobite court.

After the queen's death in 1718, she retired to the Poor Clare convent in Rouen, where her husband and her eldest son were buried.