In 1904 the Duke of Norfolk wedded the Hon. Gwendolen Constable-maxwell. She was the eldest daughter of the late Lord Herries, from whom she inherited, on his death in 1908, the ancient Scottish barony of Herries, and became in her own right Baroness Herries. The duke's first wife died in 1887. Educated in the rather strict seclusion common to old Roman Catholic families, Miss Constable-maxwell's marriage to Britain's premier peer caused no little surprise, not to mention envy, for so little was known of the bride. Even now she goes little into society, preferring the quiet of country life and the companionship of her two bonny children - Lady Mary Rachel Howard born in 1905. and the Earl of Arundel born in 1908 - to the whirl of modern life. She makes an ideal mistress of Arundel Castle. Her chanties are boundless, and she is devoted to music. The duchess was born in 1877, and is thirty years younger than her husband.

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