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The Dowager Duchess of Rutland, who has died aged 86, was the widow of the 10th Duke of Rutland and a hands-on chatelaine of Belvoir Castle for more than 40 years.
The Duchess of Rutland, who died on Sunday, was a society beauty and keeper of Belvoir Castle after marrying Charles Manners in 1958 - but she couldn't escape her mother's life of scandal.
Most famous as the youngest Duchess in the country, and for the icy relationship with her scandalous mother, Frances Manners, Duchess of Rutland, died at Belvoir Castle on Sunday aged 86
RICHARD EDEN: Those who knew the late Frances, Duchess of Rutland, point out that her life was overshadowed by her mother Margaret Campbell's divorce from the Duke of Argyll.
An unseen picture of the 'Dirty Duchess' Margaret Sweeny will be shown at the London National Portrait Gallery as part of an exhibition on photographer Madame Yevonde in June.