In due course -- following her father-in-law, the 11th Earl of Sandwich's funeral -- Viscountess Hinchingbrooke will be styled as Countess of Sandwich as her husband, Luke is the heir apparent.
The heirs are not styled by their new title until after the funeral of the deceased peer.
Lady Hinchingbrooke is an American. She was born Julie Fisher in Sugar Grove, Illinois, in 1972. In the early 2000s, Julie moved to London to work for a digital firm. By that time, she was a single mother of two young children. She met Luke Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke in 2003. A year later, they married at Mapperton. The couple have two sons, Hon. William and Hon. Nestor.
She appeared in Ladies of London, Million Dollar American Princess and was the host of the Smithsonian Channel's An American Aristocrat's Guide to Great Estates. Lady Hinchingbrooke now has her own YouTube Channel, American Viscountess.
https://americanviscountess.com/
The soon-to-be-styled Countess of Sandwich is an eloquent, brilliant, funny stately home historian. She is not, however, the first American to marry an Earl of Sandwich.
In June 1905, Miss Alberta Sturges became engaged to George George Charles Montagu, MP, the son of Rear Admiral the Hon Victor Montagu (1841-1916) and the nephew of the unmarried Edward George Henry Montagu, 8th Earl of Sandwich (1839-1916). They married on July 25, 1905, at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.
Miss Sturges "possessed of a large fortune in her own right" was one of the Dollar Princesses who married into the British peerage. The Duchess of Manchester (Helena Zimmerman) was a close friend.
Alberta was the daughter of William Solomon Sturges (1824-1894) and Elizabeth "Betty" MacLeod (1857-1931). She was born in Chicago, Illinois She had one brother, Hollister, and one half-sister, Frances Leggett. A year after Sturges' death, Betty married Francis Howard Leggett, a wealthy New York grocer. Leggett moved the family to London, where Alberta made her debut in 1901
Along with her mother, her aunt Josephine MacLeod, and her stepfather, Alberta was a devotee of a Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda. Alberta's two daughters, Lady Mary Faith and Lady Elizabeth, were also followers of Hinduism.
Mr and Mrs George Sandwich segued into the positions of Earl and Countess of Sandwich when his uncle died in 1916. The couple had four children: Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu (1906 – 1995); The Hon. William Drogo Sturges Montagu (1908-1940); Lady Mary Faith Montagu (1911=1983) and Lady Elizabeth Montagu (1917- 2006)
The family lived at Hinchingbrooke House, which the 9th Earl had transferred to his eldest son, Victor, the future 10th Earl. During the Second World War, the house was used as a hospital. In 1955, Victor sold the estate as he could no longer afford the maintenance. The family moved to Mapperton in Dorset after the sale of Hinchingbrooke House. The house is now a school.
The Countess of Sandwich died in Huntingdon on October 23, 1951.
https://mapperton.com/home/gilded-age-american-heiress-exhibtion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z74LoE7MlnM
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gg2w16p2lo
https://www.doaks.org/resources/bliss-tyler-correspondence/annotations/alberta-sturges-montagu
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