Lady Philadelphia Carey (died 1654) was an English courtier.
Philadelphia Carey was a daughter of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth and Elizabeth Trevannion.
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.[1] [2] [3]
The younger Philadelphia Carey was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth.[4]
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".[5]
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.[6]
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.[7]
She died in 1654 and was buried at Easby, Richmondshire.[8]
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.[9]
They had two sons: