Possible Clues:

• Titled widows
• Grand old ladies make bets
• Imposing old ladies organise bets
• Peers of Countess Violet Crawley
• Violet Crawley of 'Downton Abbey,' and others
• Some of the landed gentry
• Dignified elderly women, may be titled
• Ward goes (anag.)
• Widows, with title or property from deceased husbands