Duchess of Norfolk | |
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Born | Flora Paulyna Hetty Barbara Clifton 13 February 1854 Mayfair, London, England |
Died | 11 April 1887 Arundel Castle, Sussex | (aged 33)
Nationality | British |
Noble family | Howard family |
Spouse(s) | |
Issue | 1 |
Father | Charles Abney-Hastings, 1st Baron Donington |
Mother | Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun |
Flora Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Clifton; 13 February 1854 – 11 April 1887)[1] was a British noblewoman, philanthropist, and convert to Catholicism. Her 1878 marriage to Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk "was the event of the fashionable world" and covered widely in the press. They had one child, a severely disabled son, before she died aged 33.[2]