Virginia Pattle (1827-1900) was the great beauty of the family, and it is recorded that after one fancy dress ball she received 16 proposals of marriage. George Frederick Watts of course painted and sketched her, as he had all the Pattle sisters.

Virginia in 1850 married Charles Somers-Cocks (1819-1883), Viscount Eastnor who became Earl Somers in 1852 on the death of his father.
Virginia had inspired poetry amongst the artistic Pattle circle, and Thackeray wrote of her

When she comes into the room, it is like a beautiful air of Mozart breaking upon you; when she passes through a ballroom, everybody turns and asks who is the Princess, that fairy lady? Even the women, especially those who are the most beautiful themselves, admire her.