| 1. | Peeresses and other female armigers do not bear helms or mantlings.
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| 2. | Traditionally a widowed peeress puts " Dowager " in her style.
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| 3. | Hereditary peeresses were admitted in 1963 under the Peerage Act.
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| 4. | Through 1872 the eighty-year-old peeress was suffering from stomach cancer.
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| 5. | To date, she was the last peeress to be granted an hereditary peerage.
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| 6. | All the Peers & Peeresses put on their coronets, at the same instant.
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| 7. | She was not even a peeress and could not sit in the House of Lords.
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| 8. | However, hereditary peeresses continued to be excluded until the passage of the Peerage Act 1963.
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| 9. | Hereditary peeresses were admitted in 1963.
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| 10. | It was very rare for a woman to be created a peeress before the 17th century.
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