{{Short description|English courtier}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Lady_Philadelphia_(Carey)_Wharton,_d._1654._Wife_of_Sir_Thomas_Wharton;_daughter_of_Robert,_1st_Earl_of_Monmouth.jpg|thumb|right|Philadelphia Carey, after Anthony van Dyck]] '''Lady Philadelphia Carey''' (died 1654) was an English courtier.
Philadelphia Carey was a daughter of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth and Elizabeth Trevannion. [[File:The 1st Earl of Monmouth and his family by Paul Van Somer.jpg|thumb|right|Philadelphia Carey and her family, attributed to Paul van Somer]]
==Namesake aunt== She was the niece of another "Philadelphia Carey" (1552–1627), who was a daughter of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Ann Morgan. She married Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton in 1584 and was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth. On the queen's death she passed her ring to her brother Robert Carey, who rode to Scotland to give it to James VI.<ref>Kristen S. Bundesen, 'Philadelphia Carey Scrope', Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, ''A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen'' (Routledge, 2017), p. 521.</ref><ref>[http://womenofscotland.org.uk/women/philadelphia-carey 'Philadelphia Carey', Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland]</ref><ref>[https://www.kristinbundesen.com/post/philadelphia-carey-scrope-keeper-of-the-scottish-king-james-s-sapphire-ring Kristen Bundesen, 'Philadelphia Carey Scrope: Keeper of the Scottish King James's Sapphire Ring']</ref>
==Career== The younger Philadelphia Carey was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth.<ref>Nadine Akkerman, ''Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia: 1603-1631'', vol. 1 (Oxford, 2015), p. 77.</ref>
Her portrait appears in a picture of the family of the Earl of Monmouth in 1617 attributed to Paul van Somer and she was also painted by Anthony van Dyck. A version of the Van Dyck portrait, in different costume from the mezzotint, had the inscription "about the age of 44".<ref>Oliver Miller, 'Philip, Lord Wharton, and His Collection of Portraits', ''Burlington Magazine'', 136:1097 (August 1994), pp. 517-530, 526, 528.</ref>
King James stayed with her at Aske on 16 April 1617 on his way to Scotland, and at Wharton Hall on 8 August on his return.<ref>''HMC Downshire'', vol. 6 (London, 1995), pp. 140-1.</ref>
In June 1623 she travelled to The Hague to see Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, with Elizabeth, Lady Knollys, Isabella Smythe, Lady Hatton and her daughter Lady Purbeck. They sent a comic letter to Dudley Carleton, in the spirit of a masque, explaining their arrival deposited on the shore by Neptune, in hope of an introduction to the King and Queen of Bohemia.<ref>Mary Anne Everett Green, ''Calendar State Papers Domestic James: 1619-1623'' (London, 1858), p. 596: Mary Anne Everett Green, ''Elizabeth of Bohemia'' (London, 1909), pp. 217-8: Samuel Richardson, ''The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe'', vol. 1 (London, 1740), p. 169.</ref>
She died in 1654 and was buried at Easby, Richmondshire.<ref>Bryan Dale, [https://archive.org/details/goodlordwharton00dalegoog/page/n42/mode/2up ''The Good Lord Wharton'' (London, 1906), p. 31]</ref>
==Marriage and children== She married Sir Thomas Wharton of Aske Hall (d. 1622) in April 1611. George Calvert noted the financial settlement of £6000 from her father and an annual £1200 jointure.<ref>Thomas Birch & Robert Folkestone Williams, ''The Court and Times of James the First'', vol. 1 (London, 1848), p. 110.</ref>
They had two sons: * Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton (1613 - 1696). He married two times, with issue. * Thomas Wharton (1615 - 1684). He married two times, with issue.
==External links== * [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw01064/The-1st-Earl-of-Monmouth-and-his-family 'The 1st Earl of Monmouth and his family', Paul van Somer, National Portrait Gallery]
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