Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey was an English courtier and Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline of Brunswick. She was one of the more notorious of the many mistresses of King George IV when he was
The Countess of Jersey by Thomas Beach
1774 mezzotint engraving of Lady Jersey by Thomas Watson after a Daniel Gardner portrait
Maria Fitzherbert
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Maria Anne Fitzherbert was a longtime companion of George, Prince of Wales. In 1785, they married secretly in a ceremony that was invalid under English civil law because his father, King George III, h
Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey
…members of the English aristocracy, including Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle. It was not until 1794 that she lured the Prince of Wales away from Maria Fitzherbert, with whom he had undergone a secret marriage in a clandestine Church of England ceremony that all parties to it knew was invalid under the Royal…
Portrait of Maria Fitzherbert by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1788
Maria's first husband, Edward Weld, by Pompeo Batoni
George as Prince of Wales by Richard Cosway, circa 1780–1782
Portrait of Fitzherbert