Elizabeth Anspach, margravine of, youngest daughter of the fourth earl of Berkeley, born in December, 1750, died in Naples in January, 1828. She was married in her 17th year to Mr. Craven, afterward earl of Craven. She then had beauty, fascinating manners, and much talent. After having been married 13 years, during which time she had seven children, she separated from her husband, proceeded on a very extensive tour, visiting Italy, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Poland, and Russia, and was received with eclatby several crowned heads. Finally she went to reside at Anspach, where she established a theatre, wrote plays and directed their performance, and became an important personage with the margrave, whose wife was generally confined to her chamber by ill health, and soon after died. Lady Craven continued a visitor at Anspach, and accompanied the margrave on his excursions to other courts and his tours through Italy, England, and Portugal. Lord Craven died in September, 1791, and his widow was soon afterward married at Lisbon to the margrave, in a very ostentatious manner.

Returning to England, her three daughters refused to see her, "out of respect to their father," her eldest son neglected her, and her brother, Lord Berkeley, reproached her for marrying again so soon after her late husband's death. Her reply was, that " it was six weeks after Lord Craven's decease that she gave her hand to the margrave, which she should have done six hours after had she known it at the time." Queen Charlotte intimated that she could not be received at court, and refused to grant an audience to the margrave, who had settled in England, purchasing Brandenburg house, in the suburbs of London, subsequently so well known as the residence of Queen Caroline. In 1802 the margravine received a patent from the emperor of Germany, creating her Princess Berkeley; but the queen of England still declined seeing her. In 1806 the margrave died, aged 70, leaving £150,000 to his widow. After wandering over Europe, she finally settled at Naples. Her latter years, spent in literary retirement, were respectable. She wrote several farces and musical pieces, and was an accomplished composer. She published "Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, formerly Lady Craven, written by Herself" (2 vols., London 1825), which is only an apology for her life.

Among her other works were two volumes of travels in Europe and the East, in letters to the margrave before their marriage.