Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

Who is Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby?

Nancy Jane Marie Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby is an English peeress.

She is the daughter of James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster, and Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor. Her brother Timothy Gilbert heir apparent of the Earldom of Ancaster, was lost at sea in 1963.

She was one of the six Maids of Honour at the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

She succeeded as 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby upon the death of her father in 1983, at which time the Earldom of Ancaster became extinct. She inherited 75,000 acres in Lincolnshire, England and Perthshire in Scotland and is listed at the 1572nd position on the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 with a wealth of £48 million in finance. She is a joint hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain and sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

In 1987 she became a patron of King Edward VI School in Spilsby.

She is unmarried and without issue. The co-heirs presumptive are Sebastian St Maur Miller, her older aunt's grandson, and Sir John Aird, 4th Baronet, her younger aunt's son.