Miss Marianne Skerrett, Dresser to Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1862. Sitting on stone bench, hands clasped together on lap, facing camera but head turned slightly to her right.
- To Skerrett devolved the task of writing Queen Victoria's letters to tradespeople, the commissioning of artists and engravers, answering begging letters from old retainers, and paying the bills relating to the making and maintaining of the queen's clothes.'
- In real life, Miss Marianne Skerrett rose to be the Queen’s principle dresser, and was with Queen Victoria for twenty-five years. You can see multiple images of Miss Skerrett on the Royal Collections Trust Website. One can be found HERE. Miss Skerrett was born about 1793 in London; she was baptized in St Martin-in-the-Fields.
1762 - 1828
Biography
Given as Walter F. Skerrett as the owner in 1817 of 248 enslaved people on Bellevue or Belle Vue in Demerara. To date no will or probate has been found for him.
Walter Frye Skerrett 'of Lambeth' was buried 04/02/1828 at St John Hampstead. He was born in Liverpool in 1762, son of Walter Skerrett [and Henrietta Cornelia Frye] and married Albinia or Albina Mathias at St Martin-in-the-Fields 29/03/1791. Albinia Mathias was a friend of Charlotte Burney.
Marianne Skerrett (1793-1887), the daughter of Walter Frye Skerrett and Albinia Mathias, was dresser to Queen Victoria 1837-1862.
Marianne Skerrett Queen Victoria
Sources
Marianne Skerrett Wikipedia
Walter Frye Skerrett in Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 [database online]; Walter Frye Skerrett in Ancestry.com England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 [database online]; Walter Frye Skerrett Ancestry.com England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database online]. Walter Frye Skerrett's mother is identified as Henrietta Cornelia Frye in Vere Langford Oliver, More Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West Indies p. 42, which also shows William Frye Skerrett of Heckfield Park Hants; The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney: Volume V, 1782-1783 edited by Lars E. Troide, Stewart J. Cooke, p. 256.
https://www.rct.uk/collection/933163/marianne-skerrett-queen-victorias-dresser-died-1887 [accessed 04/10/2018].
Further Information
Albinia or Albina Mathias |
Associated Estates (1)
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Relationships (1)
Nephew → Uncle Walter Frye Skerrett was the son of Walter Skerrett and Henrietta Frye, the daughter of Edward Frye of Montserrat; John Ravel Frye was the son of Edward Frye of... |
Addresses (2)
Heckfield Park (now Highfield Park), Hampshire, Wessex, England |
Whitehall Court, London, Middlesex, London, England Notes → Walter Frye Skerrett had a lease on No. 7 Whitehall Court from 1794, probably inherited from his wife's family, and procured a reversionary lease to his nominee in 1803 for 54 years from 1806-1860. |