She married the earl on 15 July 1899. She was invested as a Dame of Justice of the Order St. John of Jerusalem (DJStJ) and served as a Lady and Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary, wife of King George V, between 1906 and 1953.
Major Hon. Anthony John Percy Hugh Michael Ashley-Cooper (5 October 1915 – 1986), who married Julian Petherick and had four daughters.
One of the homes of the earl and countess was Belfast Castle, which had been built in the 1860s for the 3rd Marquess of Donegall, the earl's maternal grandfather. However, the couple mainly lived on their English estate and spent no time in Belfast after the Partition of Ireland. In 1934, they presented the castle to the city of Belfast. The Chapel of the Resurrection, originally intended as a family mausoleum, was presented to the Church of Ireland, and the remainder of the grounds were sold for housing.[1]