Lady Charles Bentinck
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Lady Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, known between 1806 and 1816 as Lady Abdy, was a British aristocrat and a great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1825
Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley by John Philip Davis
Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of
Lady Charles Bentinck
…1875), known between 1806 and 1816 as Lady Abdy, was a British aristocrat and a great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. She was a daughter of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and his mistress, Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland, an actress at the Palais Royal. Her parents were married six years after her birth, on 29 March 1794…
Portrait of the Marquess Wellesley by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1813
Portrait of Wellesley ca. 1803 in officer's uniform with star and sash of the Order of St Patrick, painted by Robert Home.
Portrait of Marianne Wellesley by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1817–1825