Mary Curzon, Countess Howe

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Mary Curzon, Lady Howe (30 October 1887 – 1 September 1962) was an English aristocrat dubbed by the newspapers the Queen of Beauty.

Biography

Mary Curzon was born on 30 October 1887, the daughter of Montagu Curzon and Esmé FitzRoy.

On 28 October 1907 she married her first cousin, Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe. They divorced in 1937. Their daughter, Lady Georgiana Curzon, married Home Kidston, a Royal Navy officer, farmer and racing driver. Their son, Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, inherited the title.

In The Book Of Beauty by Cecil Beaton, Lady Howe is described as "the elegance of the aristocrat combined with the excessive prettiness that accompanies carnation-pink cheeks and yellow hair. She is gracefully statuesque, her height is superb, her neck swan-like, and her poreless complexion is like icing-sugar on a birthday cake. [...] there is no living beauty who can create more of an effeft than she when entering a ballroom or sitting in a box at the opera."

The newspapers talked about her as one of the loveliest women in England ever. "England’s most beautiful peeress," and "A perfect specimen of English beauty".

In 1912 she was dubbed the "Queen of Beauty," when she appeared in that role in Patsy Cornwallis-West's Eglinton Tournament at Shakespeare's England.

Lady Howe died on 1 September 1962.