| LOUISE | Lady _, eldest daughter of the Earl of Wessex (6) |
| ANNEHYDE | Daughter of the Earl of Clarendon who married James, Duke of York, in 1660 (4,4) |
| PROTHALAMION | Spousal verse by Edmund Spenser, in honour of two daughters of the Earl of Worcester |
| STYX | Underworld river in Greek mythology personified as the eldest daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys (4) |
| GONERIL | Eldest daughter of the title character in King Lear (7) |
| EDWARD | Forename of the Earl of Wessex, the youngest of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's four children (6) |
| GLAMIS | Castle in the heart of Angus, ancestral seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne since 1372, childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (6) |
| WILTON | - House; situated in Wiltshire near the confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder, seat of the Earls of Pembroke since its granting by Henry VIII to Sir William Herbert in 1544 (6) |
| GODIVA | Lady _; wife of the Earl of Mercia (6) |
| EDMUND | Illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester in King Lear (6) |
| GODWIN | Earl of Wessex who was the father of Harold II of England (6) |
| UNIT | Moon _, eldest daughter of iconic multiinstrumentalist Frank Zappa (4) |
| ANGEL | Kathleen-_, eldest daughter of Theresa McQueen in Hollyoaks (5) |
| IVY | Blue ___, eldest daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z (3) |
| BIANCA | __ Butcher, eldest daughter of in EastEnders (6) |
| PRINCEEDWARD | Member of the royal family titled the Earl of Wessex (6,6) |
| LOWTHER | ? Castle, former family seat of the Earl of Londsdale south of Penrith, Cumbria (7) |
| GLENARMCASTLE | The ancestral home of the Earls of Antrim (7,6) |
| EDGAR | In Shakespeare's King Lear, who is the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester? (5) |
| SCONEPALACE | Home, near Perth in Scotland, of the Earls of Mansfield since the early 1600s (5,6) |
