Winifred succeeded her mother as a lady-in-waiting to Mary Beatrice of Modena
. While the Jacobite court-in-exile of St Germain was where she primarily worked, she became an expert too on the byzantine routine of...
Occupation
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
Mary of Modena
had no position to give, though she wrote a letter of advice. Lady Nithsdale offered her services to a potential wife of James Edward
as soon as the existence of such a...
Wealth and Poverty
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
Winifred Nithsdale spent her first years abroad living on a Jacobite pension, which was augmented by Mary Beatrice of Modena
until the latter's death on 7 May 1718. After years of hand-to-mouth existence, she received...
