Violet Georgina Milner, Viscountess Milner (née Maxse; 1 February 1872 – 10 October 1958) was an English socialite of the Victorian and Edwardian eras and, later, editor of the political monthly National Review. She married, firstly, Lord Edward Cecil, son of the British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, on 18 June 1894. She exchanged letters with the British statesman Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner during his time in South Africa as High Commissioner, and alongside Violet Markham she established the Victoria League in 1901 to promote Milner's imperial vision of the British Empire. Lord Edward died in 1918 of the Spanish flu, and she married Lord Milner on 26 February 1921.
Sister to Olive Maxse, Violet also sat to Burne-Jones. Knowing that Alfred Milner was attracted to Violet, Burne-Jones presented the portrait to her admirer.
One of Burne-Jones' many friends was Cecilia Steele Maxse, the estranged wife of Admiral Frederick Augustus Maxse and the mother of Violet (later Viscountess Milner) and Olive, who, in their own rights, became close friends of Burne-Jones'. Violet, born in 1872, was the youngest Maxse child. She had a great interest in art, and studied in Paris from March 1893-January 1894. In June 1894, she married Lord Edward Cecil, a soldier and foreign service officer with whom she traveled widely. Their marriage was not a particularly happy one, and after Cecil's death in 1918, Violet married Sir Alfred Milner, who died in 1925. After her brother Leo's death in 1929, she took over editorship of the National Review, owned by their family since 1893. She had 2 children with Lord Cecil, George and Helen. She died in 1958.