Harriet Sarah, Lady Mordaunt, was the Scottish wife of an English baronet and member of parliament, Sir Charles Mordaunt. She was the respondent in a sensational divorce case in which the Prince of Wa
Harriet Mordaunt in the mid-1860s
Walton Hall, Warwickshire, home of Sir Charles and Lady Mordaunt
The Prince and Princess of Wales on their wedding day, 1863
Lord Penzance, judge in the Mordaunt divorce case
Georgina Elizabeth Ward, Countess of Dudley was a British noblewoman and noted beauty of the Victorian era.
Harriet Mordaunt
…Lady Mordaunt was their fourth child and fourth daughter. Her sister Georgina, the Moncreiffes' third daughter, known to the family as "Georgy", became Georgina, Countess of Dudley, her husband having been dubbed "frizzle wig" by Lady Mordaunt. In 1920, Margot Asquith recalled that "groups of beauties like the Moncrieffes [sic…
The Countess of Dudley in the 1880s
Spring by John Everett Millais (1856–59), with Georgina Moncrieffe the central figure, kneeling in a blue dress. Millais painted most of the figures in 1858.
The Dudley family estate at Witley Court, 1880
The Dowager Countess, circa 1902, in a photo by Alice Hughes