1841), and the Ascot Gold Cup three times (with two different horses) in 1843, 1844, and 1845. The second Gold Cup win, in 1844, was by a colt which the Earl had not yet named. One of the witnesses of this triumph, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, let William Charles know how excited he had been by the race, and the Earl promptly named his horse "The Emperor" in honour of the distinguished Russian visitor. In 1845, when "The Emperor" won the Gold Cup (now renamed The Emperor's Plate) again the Earl received a massive silver centrepiece paid for by the Tsar as the race prize based on Falconet's well-known sculpture of Peter the Great in St Petersburg, the base flanked by Russian equestrian troops. William Charles's horses were also victorious in the 1840s in the Cesarevitch and Cambridgeshire major handicaps run at Newmarket. (Source for the above two paragraphs is The Newsletter of the Keppel Association, Issue 4, August 2011) In 1833 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Order. Family Lord Albemarle married, firstly, the Hon. Elizabeth Southwell, daughter of Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford, on 9 April 1792. They had at least twelve children: William Keppel, Viscount Bury (1793–1804), died young. Augustus Frederick Keppel, 5th Earl of Albemarle (1794–1851), who married Frances Steer. No issue. Lady Sophia Keppel (c. 1798 – 1824), married Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet, and had issue. George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle (1799–1891), through whom is descended Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Reverend Hon. Edward Southwell Keppel (1800–1883), Dean of Norwich, married Lady Maria, daughter of Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim. Lady Anne Amelia Keppel (1803–1844), married Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, through whom is descended Sarah, Duchess of York; married, secondly, Edward Ellice. Lady Mary Keppel (1804–1898), married Henry Frederick Stephenson, MP, and had issue. Lady Georgiana Charlotte (1806-1854), married William Henry Magan. Admiral Hon. Sir Henry Keppel (1809–1904), married Katherine Crosby and had issue. Reverend Hon. Thomas Robert Keppel (1811–1863), married Frances Barrett-Lennard, daughter of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet, and had issue. Lady Caroline Elizabeth Keppel (1814–1898), married the Very Reverend Thomas Garnier and had issue. John Russell Keppel (1815-1823), died young. After his first wife's death in November 1817, aged 41, Lord Albemarle married, secondly, Charlotte Susannah, daughter of Sir Henry Hunloke, 4th Baronet, on 11 February 1822. This marriage was childless.