, in his coronation robe in 1902 While her family was renting Balmacaan, a Scottish highland estate, from
Lady Seafield, Cornelia met
William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven. Lord Craven, later a
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and
Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, had become the
Earl of Craven in 1883, at the age of fourteen. William was the eldest son of the late
George Craven, 3rd Earl of Craven, and his wife, the former Hon. Evelyn Laura Barrington (second daughter of
George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington, who was a
Member of Parliament for
Eye). Cornelia, who was then only sixteen years old, and William, who was twenty-four, were married on April 18, 1893, at
Grace Church,
New York City. The marriage gave Cornelia a $75,000 a year allowance, who married Mary Williamina George, daughter of William George
OBE, Town Clerk of Invergordon, on 14 October 1916. On July 10, 1921, whilst racing at
Cowes Week, Lord Craven fell overboard and drowned at age 52, with his body washing ashore two days later.
Later life After his death, Cornelia sold
Coombe Abbey to a builder named John Grey in 1923 and moved to another Craven estate, Hamstead Lodge in
Hamstead Marshall. The Dowager Countess of Craven died at her home in
Newbury, Berkshire on May 24, 1961. After her death, she bequeathed
Prince Charles Louis, Count Palatine, by
Anthony van Dyck, , to the National Portrait Gallery. ==In popular culture==