Prestige Titles · Guide
What Is a Viscountess?
The female counterpart to a viscount, and where the rank sits.
What a Viscountess is
A viscountess holds the fourth rank of the peerage, above a baroness and below a countess, and is addressed as Lady.
Where a Viscountess ranks
She sits at the fourth of the five degrees. See the order of precedence to place her against the ranks around her.
A little history
As with the other peerage ranks, a viscountess was historically the wife of a viscount or a woman holding the title in her own right. Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, became Viscountess Astor.
Examples:Viscountess Astor
How to address a Viscountess
Written as The Viscountess [Surname] and addressed in person as My Lady. See how to address a Lord or Lady.
Viscountess and Viscount
The male equivalent is Viscount. Read what is a Viscount.
How to become a Viscountess
A viscountcy is inherited or granted by the Crown, and cannot be bought. What you can do is legally change your title to Viscountess through a title pack, which gives you a personalised Certificate of Title on parchment and a sealed Master Title Deed. See how to become a Lord or Lady and are titles real and legal?
Become a Viscountess
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Viscountess Title Pack
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Become a Viscountess →Real parchment certificate · sealed Master Title Deed · a donation to the Woodland Trust
