The daughter of Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, and his wife, Lady Sibell Mary Lumley, and the granddaughter of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. She was the wife of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp.∼The wife of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp. Lady Lettice was the daughter of Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl of Grosvenor, and Sibell Mary Lumley (Countess Grosvenor).
William and Lady Lettice were married July 26, 1902, and lived at the Lygon family estate called Madresfield Court, near Malvern in Worcestershire, where they raised 7 children. They became estranged in 1931, owing to a scandal involving William, who was bisexual in a period when it was illegal in England. William lived in exile abroad and traveled widely and often, until the death of Lady Lettice.
In 1931 Countess Beauchamp left Madresfield Court for her family's home in Cheshire. Their grown children continued to reside at Madresfield Court; the youngest, Dickie, accompanied his mother to Cheshire. When the Earl died, the eldest son William (Viscount Elmley, later the 8th Earl Beauchamp) inherited the estate, and his sisters vacated it.
Madresfield Court has never been sold since the 12th century and is still held by the Lygon line, though the Beauchamp peerage has ceased to exist. The lives of the Lygons and their magnificent estate were the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's highly successful novel Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945.
William and Lady Lettice were married July 26, 1902, and lived at the Lygon family estate called Madresfield Court, near Malvern in Worcestershire, where they raised 7 children. They became estranged in 1931, owing to a scandal involving William, who was bisexual in a period when it was illegal in England. William lived in exile abroad and traveled widely and often, until the death of Lady Lettice.
In 1931 Countess Beauchamp left Madresfield Court for her family's home in Cheshire. Their grown children continued to reside at Madresfield Court; the youngest, Dickie, accompanied his mother to Cheshire. When the Earl died, the eldest son William (Viscount Elmley, later the 8th Earl Beauchamp) inherited the estate, and his sisters vacated it.
Madresfield Court has never been sold since the 12th century and is still held by the Lygon line, though the Beauchamp peerage has ceased to exist. The lives of the Lygons and their magnificent estate were the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's highly successful novel Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945.
The daughter of Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, and his wife, Lady Sibell Mary Lumley, and the granddaughter of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. She was the wife of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp.∼The wife of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp. Lady Lettice was the daughter of Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl of Grosvenor, and Sibell Mary Lumley (Countess Grosvenor).
William and Lady Lettice were married July 26, 1902, and lived at the Lygon family estate called Madresfield Court, near Malvern in Worcestershire, where they raised 7 children. They became estranged in 1931, owing to a scandal involving William, who was bisexual in a period when it was illegal in England. William lived in exile abroad and traveled widely and often, until the death of Lady Lettice.
In 1931 Countess Beauchamp left Madresfield Court for her family's home in Cheshire. Their grown children continued to reside at Madresfield Court; the youngest, Dickie, accompanied his mother to Cheshire. When the Earl died, the eldest son William (Viscount Elmley, later the 8th Earl Beauchamp) inherited the estate, and his sisters vacated it.
Madresfield Court has never been sold since the 12th century and is still held by the Lygon line, though the Beauchamp peerage has ceased to exist. The lives of the Lygons and their magnificent estate were the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's highly successful novel Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945.
William and Lady Lettice were married July 26, 1902, and lived at the Lygon family estate called Madresfield Court, near Malvern in Worcestershire, where they raised 7 children. They became estranged in 1931, owing to a scandal involving William, who was bisexual in a period when it was illegal in England. William lived in exile abroad and traveled widely and often, until the death of Lady Lettice.
In 1931 Countess Beauchamp left Madresfield Court for her family's home in Cheshire. Their grown children continued to reside at Madresfield Court; the youngest, Dickie, accompanied his mother to Cheshire. When the Earl died, the eldest son William (Viscount Elmley, later the 8th Earl Beauchamp) inherited the estate, and his sisters vacated it.
Madresfield Court has never been sold since the 12th century and is still held by the Lygon line, though the Beauchamp peerage has ceased to exist. The lives of the Lygons and their magnificent estate were the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's highly successful novel Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945.
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