Career
She was the first Lady of the Bedchamber appointed by Queen Victoria on her accession, serving in that capacity from 1837-1854. Her sister, Mary (d 1840) married Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim (1768–1854) in 1800. Anne was a celebrated beauty in her time.
A bust of her as a young woman by Joseph Nollekens was displayed in the corridor of Windsor Castle.
Lord Byron wrote of her in his "Letter on the Review West.L. Bowles"s Strictures on Pope" (February 7, 1821), “But always excepting the Venus de Medicis, I differ from that opinion, at least as far as regards female beauty.
Foreign the head of Lady Charlemont (when I first saw her nine years ago) seemed to possess all that sculpture required for its ideal.”
A portrait of Anne, in the guise of the Roman goddess Psyche with butterfly wings and a blue silk ribbon in her hair, was painted by François-Xavier Fabre (1766–1837) in 1796, with a copy made by Louise (Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern) wife of Charles Edward Stuart. lieutenant formerly hung in the library of Palazzo Gianfigliazzi in Florence and is now in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier.
Her writings and drawings are preserved in the National Library of Ireland.