Editing Effie Gray (section)

== Later life and death ==
[[File:Euphemia Millais Gray.jpg|thumb|Effie's grave marker, which is shared with her son, George Gray Millais, in Perth, Scotland]]
Gray had been officially [[debutante|presented]] to [[Queen Victoria]] on 20 June 1850. This was arranged by Lady Davy, a friend and neighbour of hers from London who was also friends with one of the Queen's [[Ladies in waiting|ladies-in-waiting]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fagence Cooper|first=Suzanne|title=Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais|publisher=[[St. Martin's Publishing Group]]|year=2011|isbn=978-1429962384|pages=69}}</ref> However, the [[annulment]] from Ruskin barred her from events at which the Queen was present. Her social status was affected negatively, although many in society were still prepared to receive her and to press her case sympathetically.<ref name=Cooper/> Eventually, when Millais was dying, the Queen relented through the intervention of her daughter [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll|Princess Louise]], allowing Gray to attend an official function. 

Gray had an interest in local and family history, and corresponded with Perthshire historian [[Robert Scott Fittis]], author of Sketches of the Olden Times in Perthshire (1878), about the Gray family history.<ref>Letter from Lady Millais to RS Fittis dated 7 October 1889. MS2/1/bundle 13 (24). Held in Fittis Collection, Perth and Kinross Archives.</ref>  

Sixteen months after Millais' death in August 1896, Gray died at Bowerswell on 23 December 1897.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mFKRlPTPTKkC&pg=PA251|title=The Order of Release – The Story of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and John Everett Millias|first=W.|last=James|isbn=978-1-4437-0293-5|publisher=Read|year=2008|page=251|access-date=27 February 2010}}</ref> She was buried beside her son George, who died aged 21,<ref name="og">[https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst10808.html ''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland''], [[Francis Hindes Groome]] (1901)</ref> in [[Kinnoull Parish Church|Kinnoull Parish]] churchyard, Perth, which is depicted in Millais's painting ''The Vale of Rest''. Gray's father had donated the Millais window, the West window, to Kinnoull Church in 1870. It is based on designs drawn by Millais.<ref>"The Millais window" – ''[[The Courier (Dundee)|The Courier]]'', 22 April 2020.</ref>

Her letters have been published posthumously in ''Effie in Venice: Her Picture of Society Life with John Ruskin, 1849-52'' (1965) and ''The Order of Release: The Story of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and John Everett Millais Told for the First Time in their Unpublished Letters'' (1948).