peeress

As his wife was made a life peeress, they were one of the few couples who both held titles in their own right.

And the peeress who withdrew her opposition may have been "reassured."

Until 1958, females, even though they were peeresses in their own right, were not admitted.

The robes of peers and peeresses are used only during coronations.

Peeresses also attend and are seated in the chamber.

A peeress loses her legal right to the peerage style following divorce.

Peeresses were granted the right to sit by the Peerage Act 1963.

The first peeress took her seat in the north transept opposite at 6:45, and three of the Bishops came next.

Female consorts of the British sovereign have not been created peers or peeresses.

To date, she was the last peeress to be granted a hereditary peerage.

Hereditary peeresses were admitted in 1963 under the Peerage Act.

A friend had mentioned it; had said, "She's a peeress, she is.

Mr. Clancy was news of a minor kind, several degrees inferior to a peeress.

The privilege of trial by peers was still ill-defined, and the statute did not cover peeresses.

About 9 the first gleams of the sun started into the Abbey, and presently traveled down to the peeresses.

Some women other than life peeresses hold hereditary or life peerages in their own right.

She was one of two women in sixteenth-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband.

"I see," he sneered, "you want to be a peeress one day, no doubt.

Thomas took the Peeress north for general cargo and a deckload of livestock.

Peeresses (whether they hold peerages in their own right or are wives of peers) use equivalent styles.

One day he will, and proceed to create from her the perfect dish of a wife and peeress.'

Peeresses use the same design, except that they appear on smaller circlets than the peers' coronets.

Some Australians have been made life peers or peeresses of the United Kingdom.

Peeresses and other female armigers do not bear helms or mantlings.

However, hereditary peeresses continued to be excluded until the passage of the Peerage Act 1963.