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* ''Series/DempseyAndMakepeace'': [[GentlemanDetective Detective Sergeant Lady Harriet "Harry" Makepeace]] fits this to a T, with her short but feminine fair hair, rosy cheeks and slender figure, likewise (unless undercover) her dress sense tends to the elegant and chaste. Being the daughter of a Lord, she likewise possesses a full classical education and proper manners (although [[CowboyCop Dempsey]] can push her to her breaking point). She is humble, courteous, intelligent and can [[SilkHidingSteel also beat the hell out murderous gangsters twice her size without breaking a sweat]].

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* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': Cecilia Alcott is the official representative of the United Kingdom for the IS Academy. She is an {{ojou}} from a noble family and tends to SpockSpeak because of this. Despite her glamorous exterior, she's a CovertPervert and many {{Running Gag}}s are of how lewd she is to the other girls.



* ''Ladies Vs. Butlers'': One of the students at the academy, Selnia Flameheart, is British and very proud of her status as a member of the noble Flameheart family. She dresses like an {{Ojou}}, with a PimpedOutDress and drill-like hair that goes to her knees, and is very hypercompetitive about being the best student.

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* ''Ladies Vs. Butlers'': One of the students at the academy, Selnia Flameheart, is British and very proud of her status as a member of the noble Flameheart family. She dresses like an {{Ojou}}, with a PimpedOutDress and drill-like hair that goes to her knees, and is very hypercompetitive hyper-competitive about being the best student.



* ''Anime/PrincessDiana'': The titular [[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales Princess Diana]] is a cute, wide-eyed girl who descends from the Spencers, a family of minor nobility, and ends up marrying the Prince.

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* ''Anime/PrincessDiana'': The titular [[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales Princess Diana]] is a cute, wide-eyed girl who descends from the Spencers, a family of minor nobility, an ancient noble family, and ends up marrying the Prince.Prince of Wales.

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* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': Cecilia Alcott is the official representative of the United Kingdom for the IS Academy. She is an {{ojou}} from a noble family and tends to SpockSPeak because of this. Despite her glamorous exterior, she's a CovertPervert and many {{Running Gag}}s are of how lewd she is to the other girls.

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* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': Cecilia Alcott is the official representative of the United Kingdom for the IS Academy. She is an {{ojou}} from a noble family and tends to SpockSPeak SpockSpeak because of this. Despite her glamorous exterior, she's a CovertPervert and many {{Running Gag}}s are of how lewd she is to the other girls.



** Averted by the one young woman named Rose: the Crawleys' cousin Lady Rose [=MacClare=] is Scottish (or half-Scottish, at any rate), anything but demure (although she pretends to be at times), dresses provocatively given the chance and indeed is something of a [[TheFlapper flapper]] (she goes out to jazz nightclubs and has an affair with a married man). Oddly enough, her great aunt Violet, the Dowager Countess, backs her up in everything but the affair, and she helps cover that one up.

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* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': Diana Cavendish is English[[note]]Scottish if the family name is anything to go by[[/note]], an AcademicAlphaBitch, from a prestigous family of Old Witches and Luna Nova Academy's Top Student. She frequently acts snobbish and cold towards Akko & Co., thus becoming her ArchEnemy, and is always followed around by her GirlPosse Hannah and Barbara.
* ''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima'': Evangeline was born a feared vampire queen, but is reincarnated as a wealthy English girl. She attends a school for the elie where she specializes in black magic.
* ''Anime/PandoraHearts'': Ada is a prefect[[note]]A role of authority over other students[[/note]] at Lutwidge, a prestigious school for noble children. She is dedicated to her studies and surprises Vincent with how much she knows about the occult.



* ''Anime/RemyNobodysGirl'': Mrs. Milligan is a beautiful lady who's a widow of Mr. Milligan, a wealthy English aristocrat. She always dresses exquisitely and is devited to her son, Arthur. She refuses to marry after her husband's death and stays chaste, though [[spoiler: she adopts all the orphans at the end after finding out Remy is her long lost daughter]].
* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Mrs. Lennox is a glamorous {{Ojou}} that lives in British India and often attends parties where she shows off her many {{Pimped Out Dress}}es. She's so obsessed with her social image that she spends all her time crafting it, instead of caring for her daughter, Mary.

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* ''Anime/RemyNobodysGirl'': Mrs. Milligan is a beautiful lady who's a widow of Mr. Milligan, a wealthy English aristocrat. She always dresses exquisitely and is devited devoted to her son, Arthur. She refuses to marry after her husband's death and stays chaste, though [[spoiler: she adopts all the orphans at the end after finding out Remy is her long lost daughter]].
* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Mrs. Lennox is a glamorous {{Ojou}} that lives in British India and often attends parties where she shows off her many {{Pimped Out Dress}}es. She's so obsessed with her social image that she spends all her time crafting it, instead of caring for her daughter, Mary.
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* ''Anime/TomochanIsAGirl'': Carol Olston is a British exchange student in Japan and the daughter of an international business tycoon. She is considered a GorgeousGaijin by almost everyone she meets, and is the girliest of the cast, dressing in pink and having long blonde hair that goes past her shoulders.
* ''Anime/UnbreakableMachineDoll'': Charlotte Belew is British and one of the top students at a prestigious academy for magicians. She comes from a noble family, but their reputation is marred when one of their machine goes awry and attacked the Prince.
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* ''Anime/AbsoluteDuo'': Lilith Bristol is an exchange student from England. Her family is so rich that she has a personal maid, lives in a rather vast estate in another country and travels by private helicopter. She is initially a rude, unlikable SpoiledBrat, but goes through character development. and reveals that she has a tender, caring side to her.
* ''Anime/ArakawaUnderTheBridge'' has a villainous example with Marie, a British spy who is pretty and glamorous on the outside, but a cruel {{Sadist}} on the inside. She uses this trope as a way to fool men into falling for her, before emasculating them.

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* In the audio play ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', Doctor's companion Charlotte "Charley" Elspeth Pollard was raised to become one, but said ScrewThisImOuttaHere as soon as she had the chance to. However, many of her traits fit perfectly. She has a hard time dealing with the fact she's not going to see her family ever again, she longs to become a mother, she speaks in the classic Received Pronunciation, Creator/JaneAusten is one of her favourite authors, and she's very much in love with the past and enjoys {{Gorgeous Period Dress}}es. She's a classy LadyOfAdventure and sees historical adventures as an excuse to put her endless etiquette lessons to good use. Occasionally referenced:
-->'''Keep:''' There's a tint to your skin.
-->'''Charley:''' [dripping with sarcasm] It's called English Rose.


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* In the audio play ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', Doctor's companion Charlotte "Charley" Elspeth Pollard was raised to become one, but said ScrewThisImOuttaHere as soon as she had the chance to. However, many of her traits fit perfectly. She has a hard time dealing with the fact she's not going to see her family ever again, she longs to become a mother, she speaks in the classic Received Pronunciation, Creator/JaneAusten is one of her favourite authors, and she's very much in love with the past and enjoys {{Gorgeous Period Dress}}es. She's a classy LadyOfAdventure and sees historical adventures as an excuse to put her endless etiquette lessons to good use. Occasionally referenced:
-->'''Keep:''' There's a tint to your skin.
-->'''Charley:''' [dripping with sarcasm] It's called English Rose.
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''Anime/AbsoluteDuo'': Lilith Bristol is an exchange student from England. Her family is so rich that she has a personal maid, lives in a rather vast estate in another country and travels by private helicopter. She is initially a rude, unlikable SpoiledBrat, but goes through character development. and reveals that she has a tender, caring side to her.
* EnglishRose/{{Literature}}
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''Anime/ArakawaUnderTheBridge'' has a villainous example with Marie, a British spy who is pretty and glamorous on the outside, but a cruel {{Sadist}} on the inside. She uses this trope as a way to fool men into falling for her, before emasculating them.
* ''Anime/BlackButler'': Elizabeth Middleford. She is English, and a NiceGirl by nature and hails from a noble family (she's cousins with the Phantomhives). She tends to dress in glitzy, gorgeous {{Fairytale Wedding Dress}}es and has an obsession with all things cute.
* ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', written by self-confessed Anglophile Kaoru Mori, contains some great examples. For instance, there is demure, fair-haired beauty Eleanor Campbell (complete with IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy storyline).
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* ''Anime/{{Georgie}}'': The titular Georgie is Aussie, but she discovers that she's of British descent. She goes on a RediscoveringRootsTrip to London and unravels the gridly political underbelly of England, with her and her brothers at the center. She is very pretty, with striking green eyes and long blonde hair, [[FeminineWomenCanCook knows how to cook]], [[TextileWorkIsFeminine can sew on a whim]] and attracts men like honey attracts flies. [[spoiler: The anime ends with Georgie becoming a ProperLady after finding the truth about her family]].
* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': Darjeeling is an [[InvokedTrope invoked example]] and represents England's national stereotype. She strives to present the look and behavior of an English Rose, despite being Japanese. She's a pale-skinned blonde with permed curls; and a polite, dignified ProperLady who loves her {{tea|LovingBrits}}... while driving around in a Churchill tank!
* ''Manga/GoodbyeMyRoseGarden'': Alice Douglas is a pretty young English noblewoman in a story set at the beginning of the twentieth century. [[spoiler: She's a repressed lesbian during a time where any sort of deviation from the norm was social devastation, and Alice has become so self-loathing and so fearful of the idea of ruining her family's image that she has become suicidal. Her acting the part of a ProperLady is more of a mask than anything.]] Roses are used as FlowerMotifs everywhere in this manga, and many rose-centric metaphors and similes pop up, usually in [[TheTragicRose a melancholy context]]. Alice compares herself to a rose infected with black spot, then Hanako muses on how Alice's distant smile was like a rose shrinking from her touch, and Edward uses a metaphor about roses casting darker shadows when bathed in brighter light to sow doubt in Alice's heart about Hanako. In particular, Alice's rose garden is both a place where she can escape from the world and a reminder of how she must constantly hide her true self deep within her. Incidentally, the Douglas family manor is named Rosebarrow House.
* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': [[spoiler:Linda]] has the typical markings of one -- she is from England, very pretty, chaste until marriage and a shy, demure soul by nature. Sandybell's father was instantly charmed upon seeing her and wanted to get married, but her father disapproved of him.
* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': Cecilia Alcott is the official representative of the United Kingdom for the IS Academy. She is an {{ojou}} from a noble family and tends to SpockSPeak because of this. Despite her glamorous exterior, she's a CovertPervert and many {{Running Gag}}s are of how lewd she is to the other girls.
* ''Anime/ItazuraNaKiss'': Christine Robbins is high class, very ladylike, and with parents connected to British aristocracy. She is the [[UglyGuyHotWife Hot Wife]] to [[spoiler: Kinnosuke's Ugly Guy]], and in true YamatoNadeshiko fashion, is skilled at housework and domestic-related matters.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'': Erina Pendleton is a [[GirlNextDoor sweet, fragile]] girl with not an ounce of violence in her body. After Johnathon Joestar beats up some boys who took her doll, they start going out, and he's warmed by her gentle nature. Dio tries to hurt his honour by forcefully kissing Erina, laughing about how he has "tainted" her, but this doesn't change a thing between them.
* ''Ladies Vs. Butlers'': One of the students at the academy, Selnia Flameheart, is British and very proud of her status as a member of the noble Flameheart family. She dresses like an {{Ojou}}, with a PimpedOutDress and drill-like hair that goes to her knees, and is very hypercompetitive about being the best student.
* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'':
** Sarah Russell is Lynn's DelicateAndSickly older sister and the eldest daughter of Viscount Marble. Many characters remark on her beauty, and she's also skilled at playing the flute. She is much more ladylike and composed than her younger sister, but get on her bad side and she ''will'' shank you, illness be damned.
** Sarah's mother Frances also plays this straight - she was an elite her father met at his university's horse riding club, but she died in childbirth. Sarah wants to be just like her, and at times her CreepyChangingPainting is hung on also seems to look at her daughter mournfully.
* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': Diana Cavendish is English[[note]]Scottish if the family name is anything to go by[[/note]], an AcademicAlphaBitch, from a prestigous family of Old Witches and Luna Nova Academy's Top Student. She frequently acts snobbish and cold towards Akko & Co., thus becoming her ArchEnemy, and is always followed around by her GirlPosse Hannah and Barbara.
* ''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima'': Evangeline was born a feared vampire queen, but is reincarnated as a wealthy English girl. She attends a school for the elie where she specializes in black magic.
* ''Anime/PandoraHearts'': Ada is a prefect[[note]]A role of authority over other students[[/note]] at Lutwidge, a prestigious school for noble children. She is dedicated to her studies and surprises Vincent with how much she knows about the occult.
* ''Anime/PrincessDiana'': The titular [[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales Princess Diana]] is a cute, wide-eyed girl who descends from the Spencers, a family of minor nobility, and ends up marrying the Prince.
* ''Anime/PrincessSarah'': Sarah Crew is the daughter of a wealthy British Captain and excels at everything at Miss Minchin's Academy, from reading to linguistics. The main reason Lavinia bullies her so much is because she's jealous of how perfect Sarah's life seems on the outside. Even after her father dies and she's humiliated and relegated to a PrincessInRags, Sarah refuses to stop acting ladylike, and continues to be a humble girl in the face of Lavinia and Miss Minchin's abuse.
* ''Anime/RemyNobodysGirl'': Mrs. Milligan is a beautiful lady who's a widow of Mr. Milligan, a wealthy English aristocrat. She always dresses exquisitely and is devited to her son, Arthur. She refuses to marry after her husband's death and stays chaste, though [[spoiler: she adopts all the orphans at the end after finding out Remy is her long lost daughter]].
* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Mrs. Lennox is a glamorous {{Ojou}} that lives in British India and often attends parties where she shows off her many {{Pimped Out Dress}}es. She's so obsessed with her social image that she spends all her time crafting it, instead of caring for her daughter, Mary.
* ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'': Ana, the series' resident TokenWhite amongst her Japanese castmates, is a beautiful Cornish girl with skin described as being "white as porcelain" and looking "like a porcelain doll", who comports herself properly at all times and is of a reserved, charmingly polite disposition. Nobue and the rest of the girls are instantly captivated and intrigued by her.
* ''Anime/TomochanIsAGirl'': Carol Olston is a British exchange student in Japan and the daughter of an international business tycoon. She is considered a GorgeousGaijin by almost everyone she meets, and is the girliest of the cast, dressing in pink and having long blonde hair that goes past her shoulders.
* ''Anime/UnbreakableMachineDoll'': Charlotte Belew is British and one of the top students at a prestigious academy for magicians. She comes from a noble family, but their reputation is marred when one of their machine goes awry and attacked the Prince.


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* ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'': Captain Jack Aubrey's eventual wife is the lovely blonde Sophie Williams. She really wants marriage with children and is a true Proper Lady, down to [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland submissive mannerisms]].
* ''Literature/AuntDimity'': "A somewhat distant and distaff twig of the [Penford] family tree, but a twig nonetheless", Susannah Ashley-Woods was a fashion model known as "Ashers, the English Rose", effectively trading on this trope. Not that she quite lives up to the ideal; explaining her ill-manners, the duke says of her, "She was raised by wolves, you know." It is only after she's assaulted by a hero-worshipping housemaid that she reverts to the good manners associated with this trope.
* ''Literature/TheEssexSerpent'': Stella Ransome, the lovely and sweet wife of priest William Ransome and mother of three, who all live in the village of Aldwinter in an Essex parish. Stella is blue-eyed with blond hair, very beautiful and petite (she's described as "no bigger than a fairy and twice as pretty"), and she's also warm and radiant. She loves collecting and pressing wild blue flowers, she often wears blue clothes and becomes obsessed with the colour blue and blue things in general. [[spoiler:She's gradually consumed by tuberculosis and]] her fair, pale skin becomes almost translucent.
* ''Literature/FlowerFairies'': The wild rose fairy from ''The Fairies of the Summer'' is specifically called the English rose. She's drawn as a beautiful regal-looking girl with blond hair, fair skin with rosy cheeks and she's dressed in a pink dress. She also has pink butterfly-like wings. One line from the poem is "my buds are rosy as a baby’s cheek".
-->''I am the queen whom everybody knows\\
I am the English Rose;\\
As light and free as any Jenny Wren,\\
As dear to Englishmen;''
* ''Literature/ForeignAffairs1984'': Fred regards Rosemary, the actress that he starts an affair with, as "delicately pretty with what he recognized as a typical English prettiness." She's further described as being round-faced with "creamy white skin" and "tumbling flaxen curls." Rosemary gets a lot of work playing English Roses on British TV. (Fred's an American so this may heighten the attraction.)
* ''Literature/TheGhostWriter'': Gerard Freeman imagines his English pen-girlfriend Alice Jessell as a voluptuous and seductive pre-Raphaelite beauty with milky skin and cascades of coppery hair. Ultimately subverted in reality with her true form that [[spoiler:includes tropes FacialHorror, BaldOfEvil, and OurGhostsAreDifferent.]]
* ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'': Tessa Gray is a New Yorker who travels to VictorianLondon, and she describes Jessamine Lovelace as one. Jessamine strives to be a Proper Lady and has many lady-like attributes (like her ParasolOfPrettiness), but ultimately she fails to be a straight example because she's something of a SpoiledBrat.
* Creator/JaneAusten has quite a few:
** ''Literature/{{Emma}}'': Jane Fairfax is a beautiful, intelligent, accomplished and gentle young woman, and she seems to be admired by virtually everybody. She has dark hair, deep grey eyes, dark eyelashes and eyebrows, and her complexion is fair, smooth, and delicate without being pale. She's rather tall, and her figure is graceful and elegant. Unfortunately, Jane has shattered health, so she lacks the rosy cheeks. Emma herself also thinks she should be friendlier, livelier, and little less proper in her {{Proper Lady}}-like behaviour.
** ''Literature/LadySusan'': Frederica Vernon is a very pretty young girl with delicate complexion, a pleasant oval face, mild dark eyes, and "peculiar sweetness in her look". Her abusive mother Lady Susan tells lies about her, so her aunt and uncle expect Frederica to be uncultured, uneducated, and amoral. They are pleasantly surprised to find that Frederica is very timid and shy, and a major {{Bookworm}} and FriendToAllChildren. Here is a sentence about Frederica from her aunt's letter:
--->''"There cannot be a more gentle, affectionate heart; or more obliging manners when acting without restraint; and her little cousins are all very fond of her."''
** ''Literature/MansfieldPark'': Fanny Price is a timid and quiet girl, and people at the Park don't value her much when she's little, but she's a very patient companion to her idle aunt. She blooms fully when her cousin Maria gets married and cousin Julia leaves with her. Fanny grows into a very pretty girl with light-coloured eyes and a sweet smile, and she blushes frequently. She loves her brother William and she's a great comfort to her sister Susan as both girls are [[TheUnfavourite unfavourite]] for their parents.
** ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey'': Eleanor Tilney is General Tilney's daughter and a perfect example from the English country gentry. She's a long-suffering beautiful girl who lost her mother very young and has only her difficult father for a companion. She likes her brother Henry and is a kind friend to the novel's heroine Catherine Morland. She's also put in contrast with Catherine's first friend Isabella Thorpe who is beautiful but extremely shallow.
** ''Literature/{{Persuasion}}'': Miss Anne Elliot, although it appears she has lost her bloom, but she regains her appeal in the course of the novel. She's gentle, affectionate with an elegant mind and desire to help everybody. She has delicate features and mild dark eyes, and she's described as an elegant little woman. She's contrasted with her handsome sister Elizabeth who is a more striking beauty, but very haughty and unkind.
** ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'': Elizabeth's sister Jane Bennet is a kind, polite, well-mannered, and beautiful lady from the English country gentry. Jane is considered the most beautiful young woman in the neighbourhood. Her character is contrasted with Elizabeth's as sweeter, shyer, and equally sensible, but not as clever; her most notable trait is a desire to see only the good in others.
** ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'': Elinor Dashwood is TheReliableOne of her family despite being only nineteen. She's very pretty, though her sister Marianne is thought to be the prettiest, Marianne is also slightly darker and her beauty is of the exotic kind. Elinor is fair and has the appropriate looks, and her calm and dignified personality makes her fit perfectly. Elinor's mother and sisters think she's too calm and that she should be a bit more emotional, but her NotSoStoic moments show she has lots of true and deep feelings.
* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'': The daughter of a clergyman, Arabella Strange is a charming, intelligent, caring, and humorous English young woman. She's pale-skinned, petite, and always modestly dressed. She's good-looking, too, but with a TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside catch, as she's described as "moderately pretty" rather than beautiful - but her good humour and vivacity make her incredibly attractive to those around her.
* ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'': All three main female characters are subversions:
** Rosamond was raised (and generally accepted) to be an archetypal English Rose: beautiful, gentle and chaste--when inwardly she's shallow and selfish.
** Mary Garth is perfectly honourable, sensible and well-mannered, but she's also generally regarded as quite plain in terms of her looks.
** Dorothea is the one that comes closest to playing this trope straight, as she's at once beautiful, incredibly modest in both senses of the word, and a seriously good person; but she is a bit too "fervent" in her beliefs and ideals, and a bit too interested in "manly affairs" (such as managing her land, or science and learning) to be considered a completely decent lady in 19th century England.
* ''Literature/TheMurderOfRogerAckroyd'' by Creator/AgathaChristie: Flora is described as blonde and blue-eyed with a pale complexion, as beautiful, and as a typical English girl.
* ''Literature/TheOtherBoleynGirl'' is even more overt than the film in its portrayal of Mary as English Rose. This is justified, however, as it's an image that she deliberately cultivates to catch the king's eye. When calling her out on this, Anne describes Mary as "sweet and open and English and fair", and Henry VIII himself refers to her as "my little English rose".
* ''Literature/TheRoyalDiaries'': In ''Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor'', Henry VIII of England chastises Prince Edward for being lazy while the girls work hard on the rose bushes. Princess Elizabeth is quick to respectfully tell her father that she thinks that Edward's humors were out of balance. For that kindness, the king tenderly tells the princess that she was "the true Tudor rose".
* ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'': Ned, a 21st-century time-traveling historian in the Victorian era, describes one: "She was like a delicate blossom, capable of growing only in a single time, adapted only to the select hothouse environment of the late Victorian era: the untouched flower, the blooming English rose, the angel in the house." [[spoiler:It was Verity, another time-traveling historian.]]
* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': El's mother, Gwen, is described by El herself as an English rose aging gracefully towards middle age--still golden-haired and rosy-cheeked, but gaining a bit of [[BigBeautifulWoman charming plumpness]] that suits her kind and helpful personality.
* ''Literature/ShadesOfMilkAndHoney'': The heroine Jane is a very proper English lady. Her younger sister Melody is prettier, but also more spirited, and maybe a tad bit too spirited to fit the trope. At one point in the story, Jane even wears a dress decorated with roses.
* ''Literature/WivesAndDaughters'': Molly Gibson is a beloved daughter of an English country doctor. She's a kindhearted girl who loves her father, their neighbours, and friends. Molly gets attached to Mrs Hamley who embraces her almost like a daughter, and later she becomes really close to her stepsister Cynthia. Molly's complexion is first described as colourless, and when she grows up, it's tanned because she loves being outdoors. Her stepmother tries to get her to use rosemary washes and creams in order to lighten her tanned skin, and later the narrator occasionally describes Molly's complexion as cream-coloured. She has plentiful curly black hair and long, almond-shaped, soft gray eyes with curling black eyelashes, and she has a shy, loving expression. She has a slight, lean figure, promising to be tall. When she dresses up, especially for balls, Molly looks really beautiful.
* "The Wreck", by Creator/GuyDeMaupassant: The narrator is an older Frenchman who reflects on his acquaintance with a pretty Englishwoman with whom he has been corresponding his whole life since they met (20 years ago on [[NewYearHasCome New Year's Eve]]). She was a sandy-haired, dainty young girl of eighteen who was travelling with her father and two younger sisters. He worked as an inspector of the Maritime Insurance Company and they met on a wrecked ship. They nearly died because as they were strolling on the wreck, the tide swept the ship back on sea. The narrator says she was the only woman he has ever loved, and she became a lost ideal he cannot have. She got married and the narrator says they write to each other every New Year's Day. She writes about her life, her sisters, and her children, but he only ever writes about their encounter.
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* In ''Anime/AbsoluteDuo'', Lilith Bristol is an exchange student from England. Her family is so rich that she has a personal maid, lives in a rather vast estate in another country and travels by private helicopter. She is initially a rude, unlikable SpoiledBrat, but goes through character development. and reveals that she has a tender, caring side to her.
* ''Anime/ArakawaUnderTheBridge'' has a villainous example with Marie, a British spy who is pretty and glamorous on the outside, but a cruel {{Sadist}} on the inside. She uses this trope as a way to fool men into falling for her, before emasculating them.
* ''Anime/BlackButler'': Elizabeth Middleford. She is English, and a NiceGirl by nature and hails from a noble family (she's cousins with the Phantomhives). She tends to dress in glitzy, gorgeous {{Fairytale Wedding Dress}}es and has an obsession with all things cute.
* ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', written by self-confessed Anglophile Kaoru Mori, contains some great examples. For instance, there is demure, fair-haired beauty Eleanor Campbell (complete with IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy storyline).
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* ''Anime/{{Georgie}}'': The titular Georgie is Aussie, but she discovers that she's of British descent. She goes on a RediscoveringRootsTrip to London and unravels the gridly political underbelly of England, with her and her brothers at the center. She is very pretty, with striking green eyes and long blonde hair, [[FeminineWomenCanCook knows how to cook]], [[TextileWorkIsFeminine can sew on a whim]],
* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', Darjeeling is an [[InvokedTrope invoked example]] and represents England's national stereotype. She strives to present the look and behavior of an English Rose, despite being Japanese. She's a pale-skinned blonde with permed curls; and a polite, dignified ProperLady who loves her {{tea|LovingBrits}}... while driving around in a Churchill tank!
* Alice Douglas from ''Manga/GoodbyeMyRoseGarden'' is a pretty young English noblewoman in a story set at the beginning of the twentieth century. [[spoiler: She's a repressed lesbian during a time where any sort of deviation from the norm was social devastation, and Alice has become so self-loathing and so fearful of the idea of ruining her family's image that she has become suicidal. Her acting the part of a ProperLady is more of a mask than anything.]] Roses are used as FlowerMotifs everywhere in this manga, and many rose-centric metaphors and similes pop up, usually in [[TheTragicRose a melancholy context]]. Alice compares herself to a rose infected with black spot, then Hanako muses on how Alice's distant smile was like a rose shrinking from her touch, and Edward uses a metaphor about roses casting darker shadows when bathed in brighter light to sow doubt in Alice's heart about Hanako. In particular, Alice's rose garden is both a place where she can escape from the world and a reminder of how she must constantly hide her true self deep within her. Incidentally, the Douglas family manor is named Rosebarrow House.
* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': [[spoiler: Linda]] has the typical markings of one - she is from England, very pretty, chaste until marriage and a shy, demure soul by nature. Sandybell's father was instantly charmed upon seeing her and wanted to get married, but her father disapproved of him.
* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': Cecilia Alcott is the official representative of the United Kingdom for the IS Academy. She is an {{ojou}} from a noble family and tends to SpockSPeak because of this. Despite her glamorous exterior, she's a CovertPervert and many {{Running Gag}}s are of how lewd she is to the other girls.
* ''Anime/ItazuraNaKiss'': Christine Robbins is high class, very ladylike, and with parents connected to British aristocracy. She is the [[UglyGuyHotWife Hot Wife]] to [[spoiler: Kinnosuke's Ugly Guy]], and in true YamatoNadeshiko fashion, is skilled at housework and domestic-related matters.
* ''Anime/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'': Erina Pendleton is a [[GirlNextDoor sweet, fragile]] girl with not an ounce of violence in her body. After Johnathon Joestar beats up some boys who took her doll, they start going out, and he's warmed by her gentle nature. Dio tries to hurt his honour by forcefully kissing Erina, laughing about how he has "tainted" her, but this doesn't change a thing between them.
* ''Ladies Vs. Butlers'': One of the students at the academy, Selnia Flameheart, is British and very proud of her status as a member of the noble Flameheart family. She dresses like an {{Ojou}}, with a PimpedOutDress and drill-like hair that goes to her knees, and is very hypercompetitive about being the best student.
* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'':
** Sarah Russell is Lynn's DelicateAndSickly older sister and the eldest daughter of Viscount Marble. Many characters remark on her beauty, and she's also skilled at playing the flute. She is much more ladylike and composed than her younger sister, but get on her bad side and she ''will'' shank you, illness be damned.
** Sarah's mother Frances also plays this straight - she was an elite her father met at his university's horse riding club, but she died in childbirth. Sarah wants to be just like her, and at times her CreepyChangingPainting is hung on also seems to look at her daughter mournfully.
* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': Diana Cavendish is English[[note]]Scottish if the family name is anything to go by[[/note]], an AcademicAlphaBitch, from a prestigous family of Old Witches and Luna Nova Academy's Top Student. She frequently acts snobbish and cold towards Akko & Co., thus becoming her ArchEnemy, and is always followed around by her GirlPosse Hannah and Barbara.
* ''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima'': Evangeline was born a feared vampire queen, but is reincarnated as a wealthy English girl. She attends a school for the elie where she specializes in black magic.
* ''Anime/PandoraHearts'': Ada is a prefect[[note]]A role of authority over other students[[/note]] at Lutwidge, a prestigious school for noble children. She is dedicated to her studies and surprises Vincent with how much she knows about the occult.
* ''Anime/PrincessDiana'': The titular Princess Diana is a cute, wide-eyed moe who descends from the Spencers, a family of minor nobility, and ends up marrying the Prince. Yes, ''[[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales, that]]'' Diana.
* ''Anime/PrincessSarah'': Sarah Crew is the daughter of a wealthy British Captain and excels at everything at Miss Minchin's Academy, from reading to linguistics. The main reason Lavinia bullies her so much is because she's jealous of how perfect Sarah's life seems on the outside. Even after her father dies and she's humiliated and relegated to a PrincessInRags, Sarah refuses to stop acting ladylike, and continues to be a humble girl in the face of Lavinia and Miss Minchin's abuse.
* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Mrs. Lennox is a glamorous {{Ojou}} that lives in British India and often attends parties where she shows off her many {{Pimped Out Dress}}es. She's so obsessed with her social image that she spends all her time crafting it, instead of caring for her daughter, Mary.
* Ana from ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' is the series' resident TokenWhite amongst her Japanese castmates. She's a beautiful Cornish girl with skin described as being “white as porcelain” and looking “like a porcelain doll”, who comports herself properly at all times and is of a reserved, charmingly polite disposition. Nobue and the rest of the girls are instantly captivated and intrigued by her.
* ''Anime/TomochanIsAGirl'': Carol Olston is a British exchange student in Japan and the daughter of an international business tycoon. She is considered a GorgeousGaijin by almost everyone she meets, and is the girliest of the cast, dressing in pink and having long blonde hair that goes past her shoulders.
* ''Anime/UnbreakableMachineDoll'': Charlotte Belew is British and one of the top students at a prestigious academy for magicians. She comes from a noble family, but their reputation is marred when one of their machine goes awry and attacked the Prince.
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* The novel ''Literature/TheOtherBoleynGirl'' is even more overt than the film in its portrayal of Mary as English Rose. This is justified, however, as it's an image that she deliberately cultivates to catch the king's eye. When calling her out on this, Anne describes Mary as "sweet and open and English and fair", and Henry VIII himself refers to her as "my little English rose".
* In the book ''Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor'' from ''Literature/TheRoyalDiaries'' series, Henry VIII of England chastises Prince Edward for being lazy while the girls work hard on the rose bushes. Princess Elizabeth is quick to respectfully tell her father that she thinks that Edward's humors were out of balance. For that kindness, the king tenderly tells the princess that she was 'the true Tudor rose'.
* Jane Austen has quite a few:
** Elizabeth's sister Jane Bennet from ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' is a kind, polite, well-mannered, and beautiful lady from the English country gentry. Jane is considered the most beautiful young woman in the neighbourhood. Her character is contrasted with Elizabeth's as sweeter, shyer, and equally sensible, but not as clever; her most notable trait is a desire to see only the good in others.
** Jane Fairfax from ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' is a beautiful, intelligent, accomplished and gentle young woman, and she seems to be admired by virtually everybody. She has dark hair, deep grey eyes, dark eyelashes and eyebrows, and her complexion is fair, smooth, and delicate without being pale. She's rather tall, and her figure is graceful and elegant. Unfortunately, Jane has shattered health, so she lacks the rosy cheeks. Emma herself also thinks she should be friendlier, livelier, and little less proper in her {{Proper Lady}}-like behaviour.
** Miss Anne Elliot from ''Literature/{{Persuasion}}'', though it appears she has lost her bloom, but she regains her appeal in the course of the novel. She's gentle, affectionate with an elegant mind and desire to help everybody. She has delicate features and mild dark eyes, and she's described as an elegant little woman. She's contrasted with her handsome sister Elizabeth who is a more striking beauty, but very haughty and unkind.
** Fanny Price from ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She's a timid and quiet girl, and people at the Park don't value her much when she's little, but she's a very patient companion to her idle aunt. She blooms fully when her cousin Maria gets married and cousin Julia leaves with her. Fanny grows into a very pretty girl with light-coloured eyes and a sweet smile, and she blushes frequently. She loves her brother William and she's a great comfort to her sister Susan as both girls are [[TheUnfavourite unfavourite]] for their parents.
** Eleanor Tilney from ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey'' is General Tilney's daughter and a perfect example from the English country gentry. She's a long-suffering beautiful girl who lost her mother very young and has only her difficult father for a companion. She likes her brother Henry and is a kind friend to the novel's heroine Catherine Morland. She's also put in contrast with Catherine's first friend Isabella Thorpe who is beautiful but extremely shallow.
** Elinor Dashwood from ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'' is TheReliableOne of her family despite being only nineteen. She's very pretty, though her sister Marianne is thought to be the prettiest, Marianne is also slightly darker and her beauty is of the exotic kind. Elinor is fair and has the appropriate looks, and her calm and dignified personality makes her fit perfectly. Elinor's mother and sisters think she's too calm and that she should be a bit more emotional, but her NotSoStoic moments show she has lots of true and deep feelings.
** Frederica Vernon from ''Literature/LadySusan'' is a very pretty young girl with delicate complexion, a pleasant oval face, mild dark eyes, and "peculiar sweetness in her look". Her abusive mother Lady Susan tells lies about her, so her aunt and uncle expect Frederica to be uncultured, uneducated, and amoral. They are pleasantly surprised to find that Frederica is very timid and shy, and a major {{Bookworm}} and FriendToAllChildren. Here is a sentence about Frederica from her aunt's letter:
--->''"There cannot be a more gentle, affectionate heart; or more obliging manners when acting without restraint; and her little cousins are all very fond of her."''
* From the ''Literature/AuntDimity'' series: "A somewhat distant and distaff twig of the [Penford] family tree, but a twig nonetheless", Susannah Ashley-Woods was a fashion model known as "Ashers, the English Rose", effectively trading on this trope. Not that she quite lives up to the ideal; explaining her ill-manners, the duke says of her, "She was raised by wolves, you know." It is only after she's assaulted by a hero-worshipping housemaid that she reverts to the good manners associated with this trope.
* In ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', Tessa Gray is a New Yorker who travels to VictorianLondon, and she describes Jessamine Lovelace as one. Jessamine strives to be a Proper Lady and has many lady-like attributes (like her ParasolOfPrettiness), but ultimately she fails to be a straight example because she's something of a SpoiledBrat.
* In ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, Captain Jack Aubrey's eventual wife is the lovely blonde Sophie Williams. She really wants marriage with children and is a true Proper Lady, down to [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland submissive mannerisms]].
* The narrator of Creator/GuyDeMaupassant's short-story "The Wreck" is an older Frenchman who reflects on his acquaintance with a pretty Englishwoman with whom he has been corresponding his whole life since they met (20 years ago on [[NewYearHasCome New Year's Eve]]). She was a sandy-haired, dainty young girl of eighteen who was travelling with her father and two younger sisters. He worked as an inspector of the Maritime Insurance Company and they met on a wrecked ship. They nearly died because as they were strolling on the wreck, the tide swept the ship back on sea. The narrator says she was the only woman he has ever loved, and she became a lost ideal he cannot have. She got married and the narrator says they write to each other every New Year's Day. She writes about her life, her sisters, and her children, but he only ever writes about their encounter.
* In ''Literature/TheGhostWriter'', Gerard Freeman imagines his English pen-girlfriend Alice Jessell as a voluptuous and seductive pre-Raphaelite beauty with milky skin and cascades of coppery hair. Ultimately subverted in reality with her true form that [[spoiler:includes tropes FacialHorror, BaldOfEvil, and OurGhostsAreDifferent.]]
* In ''Literature/ShadesOfMilkAndHoney'', which is more or less "like Jane Austen's works, but with magic", the heroine Jane is a very proper English lady. Her younger sister Melody is prettier, but also more spirited, and maybe a tad bit too spirited to fit the trope. At one point in the story, Jane even wears a dress decorated with roses.
* All three main female characters in ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}'' are subversions:
** Rosamond was raised (and generally accepted) to be an archetypal English Rose: beautiful, gentle and chaste--when inwardly she's shallow and selfish.
** Mary Garth is perfectly honourable, sensible and well-mannered, but she's also generally regarded as quite plain in terms of her looks.
** Dorothea is the one that comes closest to playing this trope straight, as she's at once beautiful, incredibly modest in both senses of the word, and a seriously good person; but she is a bit too "fervent" in her beliefs and ideals, and a bit too interested in "manly affairs" (such as managing her land, or science and learning) to be considered a completely decent lady in 19th century England.
* In ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'', Ned, a 21st-century time-traveling historian in the Victorian era, describes one: "She was like a delicate blossom, capable of growing only in a single time, adapted only to the select hothouse environment of the late Victorian era: the untouched flower, the blooming English rose, the angel in the house." [[spoiler: It was Verity, another time-traveling historian.]]
* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'': The daughter of a clergyman, Arabella Strange is a charming, intelligent, caring, and humorous English young woman. She's pale-skinned, petite, and always modestly dressed. She's good-looking, too, but with a TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside catch, as she's described as "moderately pretty" rather than beautiful - but her good humour and vivacity make her incredibly attractive to those around her.
* ''Literature/TheEssexSerpent'': Stella Ransome, the lovely and sweet wife of priest William Ransome and mother of three, who all live in the village of Aldwinter in an Essex parish. Stella is blue-eyed with blond hair, very beautiful and petite (she's described as "no bigger than a fairy and twice as pretty"), and she's also warm and radiant. She loves collecting and pressing wild blue flowers, she often wears blue clothes and becomes obsessed with the colour blue and blue things in general. [[spoiler:She's gradually consumed by tuberculosis and]] her fair, pale skin becomes almost translucent.
* ''Literature/TheMurderOfRogerAckroyd'' by Creator/AgathaChristie: Flora is described as blonde and blue-eyed with a pale complexion, as beautiful, and as a typical English girl.
* ''Literature/WivesAndDaughters'': Molly Gibson is a beloved daughter of an English country doctor. She's a kindhearted girl who loves her father, their neighbours, and friends. Molly gets attached to Mrs Hamley who embraces her almost like a daughter, and later she becomes really close to her stepsister Cynthia. Molly's complexion is first described as colourless, and when she grows up, it's tanned because she loves being outdoors. Her stepmother tries to get her to use rosemary washes and creams in order to lighten her tanned skin, and later the narrator occasionally describes Molly's complexion as cream-coloured. She has plentiful curly black hair and long, almond-shaped, soft gray eyes with curling black eyelashes, and she has a shy, loving expression. She has a slight, lean figure, promising to be tall. When she dresses up, especially for balls, Molly looks really beautiful.
* ''Literature/FlowerFairies'': The wild rose fairy from ''The Fairies of the Summer'' is specifically called the English rose. She's drawn as a beautiful regal-looking girl with blond hair, fair skin with rosy cheeks and she's dressed in a pink dress. She also has pink butterfly-like wings. One line from the poem is "my buds are rosy as a baby’s cheek".
-->I am the queen whom everybody knows\\
I am the English Rose;\\
As light and free as any Jenny Wren,\\
As dear to Englishmen;
* ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'': Time traveler Ned is in Victorian England and catches sight of Verity standing on a bridge. He waxes poetic about the quality of her innocent beauty that could only exist in this Victorian setting. He soon discovers that Verity is a fellow time traveler and not from Victorian England at all.
* In ''Literature/TheScholomance,'' El's mother, Gwen, is described by El herself as an English rose aging gracefully towards middle age--still golden-haired and rosy-cheeked, but gaining a bit of [[BigBeautifulWoman charming plumpness]] that suits her kind and helpful personality.
* ''Literature/{{Foreign Affairs|1984}}'': Fred regards Rosemary, the actress that he starts an affair with, as "delicately pretty with what he recognized as a typical English prettiness." She's further described as being round-faced with "creamy white skin" and "tumbling flaxen curls." Rosemary gets a lot of work playing English Roses on British TV. (Fred's an American so this may heighten the attraction.)
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*''Anime/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'': Erina Pendleton is a [[GirlNextDoor sweet, fragile]] girl with not an ounce of violence in her body. After Johnathon Joestar beats up some boys who took her doll, they start going out, and he's warmed by her gentle nature. Dio tries to hurt his honour by forcefully kissing Erina, laughing about how he has "tainted" her, but this doesn't change a thing between them.
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*In ''Anime/AbsoluteDuo'', Lilith Bristol is an exchange student from England. Her family is so rich that she has a personal maid, lives in a rather vast estate in another country and travels by private helicopter. She is initially a rude, unlikable SpoiledBrat, but goes through character development. and reveals that she has a tender, caring side to her.



* ''Anime/InfiniteStratos'': Cecilia Alcott is the official representative of the United Kingdom for the IS Academy. She is an {{ojou}} from a noble family and tends to SpockSPeak because of this. Despite her glamorous exterior, she's a CovertPervert and many {{Running Gag}}s are of how lewd she is to the other girls.
* ''Anime/ItazuraNoKiss'': Christine Robbins is high class, very ladylike, and with parents connected to British aristocracy. She is the [[UglyGuyHotWife Hot Wife]] to [[spoiler: Kinnosuke's Ugly Guy]], and in true YamatoNadeshiko fashion, is skilled at housework and domestic-related matters.

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* ''Anime/ItazuraNoKiss'': ''Anime/ItazuraNaKiss'': Christine Robbins is high class, very ladylike, and with parents connected to British aristocracy. She is the [[UglyGuyHotWife Hot Wife]] to [[spoiler: Kinnosuke's Ugly Guy]], and in true YamatoNadeshiko fashion, is skilled at housework and domestic-related matters.

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*''Anime/ArakawaUnderTheBridge'' has a villainous example with Marie, a British spy who is pretty and glamorous on the outside, but a cruel {{Sadist}} on the inside. She uses this trope as a way to fool men into falling for her, before emasculating them.
*''Anime/BlackButler'': Elizabeth Middleford. She is English, and a NiceGirl by nature and hails from a noble family (she's cousins with the Phantomhives). She tends to dress in glitzy, gorgeous {{Fairytale Wedding Dress}}es and has an obsession with all things cute.



*''Anime/{{Georgie}}'': The titular Georgie is Aussie, but she discovers that she's of British descent. She goes on a RediscoveringRootsTrip to London and unravels the gridly political underbelly of England, with her and her brothers at the center. She is very pretty, with striking green eyes and long blonde hair, [[FeminineWomenCanCook knows how to cook]], [[TextileWorkIsFeminine can sew on a whim]],



* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Sarah Russell is Lynn's DelicateAndSickly older sister and the eldest daughter of Viscount Marble. Many characters remark on her beauty, and she's also skilled at playing the flute. She is much more ladylike and composed than her younger sister, but get on her bad side and she ''will'' shank you, illness be damned. Sarah's mother Frances also plays this straight - she was an elite her father met at his university's horse riding club, but she died in childbirth. Sarah wants to be just like her, and at times her CreepyChangingPainting is hung on also seems to look at her daughter mournfully.

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*''Anime/InfiniteStratos'': Cecilia Alcott is the official representative of the United Kingdom for the IS Academy. She is an {{ojou}} from a noble family and tends to SpockSPeak because of this. Despite her glamorous exterior, she's a CovertPervert and many {{Running Gag}}s are of how lewd she is to the other girls.
*''Anime/ItazuraNoKiss'': Christine Robbins is high class, very ladylike, and with parents connected to British aristocracy. She is the [[UglyGuyHotWife Hot Wife]] to [[spoiler: Kinnosuke's Ugly Guy]], and in true YamatoNadeshiko fashion, is skilled at housework and domestic-related matters.
*''Ladies Vs. Butlers'': One of the students at the academy, Selnia Flameheart, is British and very proud of her status as a member of the noble Flameheart family. She dresses like an {{Ojou}}, with a PimpedOutDress and drill-like hair that goes to her knees, and is very hypercompetitive about being the best student.
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Russell is Lynn's DelicateAndSickly older sister and the eldest daughter of Viscount Marble. Many characters remark on her beauty, and she's also skilled at playing the flute. She is much more ladylike and composed than her younger sister, but get on her bad side and she ''will'' shank you, illness be damned. Sarah's
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*''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': Diana Cavendish is English[[note]]Scottish if the family name is anything to go by[[/note]], an AcademicAlphaBitch, from a prestigous family of Old Witches and Luna Nova Academy's Top Student. She frequently acts snobbish and cold towards Akko & Co., thus becoming her ArchEnemy, and is always followed around by her GirlPosse Hannah and Barbara.
*''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima'': Evangeline was born a feared vampire queen, but is reincarnated as a wealthy English girl. She attends a school for the elie where she specializes in black magic.
*''Anime/PandoraHearts'': Ada is a prefect[[note]]A role of authority over other students[[/note]] at Lutwidge, a prestigious school for noble children. She is dedicated to her studies and surprises Vincent with how much she knows about the occult.
*''Anime/PrincessDiana'': The titular Princess Diana is a cute, wide-eyed moe who descends from the Spencers, a family of minor nobility, and ends up marrying the Prince. Yes, ''[[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales, that]]'' Diana.
*''Anime/PrincessSarah'': Sarah Crew is the daughter of a wealthy British Captain and excels at everything at Miss Minchin's Academy, from reading to linguistics. The main reason Lavinia bullies her so much is because she's jealous of how perfect Sarah's life seems on the outside. Even after her father dies and she's humiliated and relegated to a PrincessInRags, Sarah refuses to stop acting ladylike, and continues to be a humble girl in the face of Lavinia and Miss Minchin's abuse.


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*''Anime/TomochanIsAGirl'': Carol Olston is a British exchange student in Japan and the daughter of an international business tycoon. She is considered a GorgeousGaijin by almost everyone she meets, and is the girliest of the cast, dressing in pink and having long blonde hair that goes past her shoulders.
*''Anime/UnbreakableMachineDoll'': Charlotte Belew is British and one of the top students at a prestigious academy for magicians. She comes from a noble family, but their reputation is marred when one of their machine goes awry and attacked the Prince.
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*''Anime/HelloSandybell'': [[spoiler: Linda]] has the typical markings of one - she is from England, very pretty, chaste until marriage and a shy, demure soul by nature. Sandybell's father was instantly charmed upon seeing her and wanted to get married, but her father disapproved of him.
*''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Sarah Russell is Lynn's DelicateAndSickly older sister and the eldest daughter of Viscount Marble. Many characters remark on her beauty, and she's also skilled at playing the flute. She is much more ladylike and composed than her younger sister, but get on her bad side and she ''will'' shank you, illness be damned. Sarah's mother Frances also plays this straight - she was an elite her father met at his university's horse riding club, but she died in childbirth. Sarah wants to be just like her, and at times her CreepyChangingPainting is hung on also seems to look at her daughter mournfully.
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*''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Mrs. Lennox is a glamorous {{Ojou}} that lives in British India and often attends parties where she shows off her many {{Pimped Out Dress}}es. She's so obsessed with her social image that she spends all her time crafting it, instead of caring for her daughter, Mary.
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* ''Literature/{{Foreign Affairs|1984}}'': Fred regards Rosemary, the actress that he starts an affair with, as "delicately pretty with what he recognized as a typical English prettiness." She's further described as being round-faced with "creamy white skin" and "tumbling flaxen curls." Rosemary gets a lot of work playing English Roses on British TV. (Fred's an American so this may heighten the attraction.)

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Compare with its sister tropes, YamatoNadeshiko from Japan, the "Bonne Belle" type of the SouthernBelle from southern USA, and CircassianBeauty from the Caucasus. Also compare TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask and the PrincessClassic. Contrast with TheLadette.

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* Queen Anora Theirin (nee Mac Tir) from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is the wife of King Cailan of Ferelden, a clear FantasyCounterpartCulture to medieval England. She is defined by her poise, intelligence, education, and political aptitude, while conforming to the English Rose's traditional ideals of femininity -- emotional control and willingness to stay out of the spotlight.
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* Evie Frye from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' fits this trope well, whilst combining it with several traits from LadyOfWar via her role as a deadly assassin and master marks-woman. In appearance, she's a slender, petite young Londoner with freckled, rosy cheeks, and sports a PrimAndProperBun of chestnut hair. In character, she is calm, no-nonsense and is able to hold herself in any situation with a good deal of grace, despite the mayhem surrounding her.

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* Evie Frye from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' fits this trope well, whilst combining it with several traits from LadyOfWar via her role as a deadly assassin and master marks-woman.markswoman. In appearance, she's a slender, petite young Londoner with freckled, rosy cheeks, and sports a PrimAndProperBun of chestnut hair. In character, she is calm, no-nonsense and is able to hold herself in any situation with a good deal of grace, despite the mayhem surrounding her.

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* ''Film/RRR2022'': Jenny stands in stark contrast to the rest of the Brits with significant screentime, who are snobby racists at best or violently {{Evil Colonialist}}s at worst. She's a classically pretty and feminine young woman with a high status (as the niece of the Governor of India), a sweet personality, and is NiceToTheWaiter and the Indians the British rule over.

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