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 Wales was embroiled, and after a counter-petition led to a finding of mental disorder she spent the remaining 36 years of her life out of sight in a series of privately rented houses, and then in various private lunatic asylums, finally ending her days in Sutton, Surrey.
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
William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, known as The Lord Ward from 1835 to 1860, was a British landowner and benefactor.
The Earl of Dudley as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, June 1870
The funerary monument to William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, in Worcester Cathedral