Sir John Ponsonby Conroy, 1st Baronet, KCH was a British Army officer who served as comptroller to the Duchess of Kent and her young daughter, Princess Victoria, the future Queen of the United Kingdom.
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill, 1837
Conroy's relationship with the Duchess of Kent (pictured) was subject to rumours that they were lovers.
Princess Victoria, 1833. She grew up in the controlling Kensington System devised by her mother and Conroy.
Victoria's ascension to the throne in 1837 led to Conroy's banishment from her household.
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Princess of Leiningen and subsequently Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, was a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. As the widow of Charles, Prince of Leiningen, from 1814, she served as regent of the Principality during the minority of her son from her first marriage, Karl, until her second wedding in 1818 to Prince Edward, fourth son of George III.
Portrait by George Dawe, c. 1818
The Duchess of Kent by Sir George Hayter in 1835
Victoria, Duchess of Kent with Princess Victoria by William Beechey, 1821
The Duchess of Kent in a portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1846
