From: Matt Davies   

<matt davies@jssgallery.org>    

Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2002  

Frances Evelyn ('Daisy') Maynard, Countess of Warwick, was the grand-daughter and co-heiress of the last Viscount Maynard.  In 1881, after being considered as a possible wife for Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold, she married instead Leopold's equerry, Lord Brooke.  In the 1890s she carried on a long affair with the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), which was broken off as she began to show an increasing interest in Socialism (deemed inappropriate for a high society woman like herself), and the Prince met the Hon. Mrs. George Keppel, who remained his mistress until his death in 1910.  Daisy maintained several homes, among them the well-known Warwick Castle and Easton Lodge, where she entertained in grand Edwardian style.  She later published several volumes of reminiscences, among them Life's Ebb and Flow, for which this portrait served as frontispiece.

Notes: 

Special thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me a note regarding this image. 

Exhibitions 

Great Expectations, 2004-2005