Lady Jane Willoughby (b1934)
NANCY Jane Marie Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, owns one of the nicest piles in the Grantham area – Grimsthorpe Castle.
She is an English peeress and the daughter of the late Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-WIlloughby and Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor.
She was a train bearer and Maid of Honour to Elizabeth II during the 1953 coronation when she was 18. The youngest Maid of Honour caught the train up from her finishing school in the country for rehearsals and dress fittings.
During the 1960s, she was a close friend of artist Lucian Freud, for whom she sat.
Lady Willoughby succeeded as 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby upon the death of her father in 1983, at which time the Earldom of Ancaster became extinct.
She inherited 75,000 acres in the Grantham area and Drummond Castle in Perthshire, Scotland, and is listed at the 1,572nd position on the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 with a wealth of £48 million.
She is a joint hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain and sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
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