By Tim Clarke
However, she used to be additionally unprincipled and malevolent. After supplying her husband with an inheritor, she duly deserted the boring respectability of married lifestyles for the whirl of the quicker set of society and a couple of high-profile and scandalous affairs. via her dating with the Prince Regent, she enraged the rustic and threatened the monarchy, blackening the prince's acceptance for posterity.
Despite being demonised through historians and subjected to hearsay and fable, this can be the 1st biography ever written of her impressive and dramatic existence. Tim Clarke skilfully items jointly the reality in regards to the Countess of Jersey, and dispels a few of the assumptions that, even within the maximum educational circles, proceed to enclose her to at the present time, leaving us with a really intimate portrait of a existence lived in defiance of social convention.
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