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23 mar 2020 · March 23, 2020. 4 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In 1784 Maria Fitzherbert was twice widowed and just coming out of mourning into London society when she met the Prince of Wales—the future George IV—who was then twenty-one to her twenty-seven. He was immediately enthralled.
The twice-widowed Maria Fitzherbert met George, Prince of Wales, in 1784 and was reluctantly persuaded to accept his offer of marriage late in 1785. As a Catholic, her marriage to the Prince of Wales was in contravention of the Act of Settlement and it was never made public.
Maria Fitzherbert became famous when in 1785 she secretly and illegally married the heir to the throne, later King George IV. Maria came from a Catholic landed family and had already been twice widowed.
Maria Fitzherbert (1756–1837) was already twice widowed when the young Prince of Wales began his pursuit of her in 1784. Initially refusing his offer of marriage, she eventually accepted it and the couple were wed in secret the following year.
This article was written by Thomas Edward Kebbel and was published in 1889. Maria Anne Fitzherbert, wife of George IV, born in July 1756, was the youngest daughter of Walter Smythe, esq., of Brambridge, Hampshire, second son of Mr. John Smythe of Acton Burnell, Shropshire. Little is known of her childhood beyond the fact that she visited Paris ...
4 gen 2019 · In 1785, when Maria Anne Fitzherbert opened a love letter from her admirer, Prince George of Wales, she wasn’t expecting to find an eye, gazing intently back at her. The British prince was lovesick—and desperate. He’d fallen hard for Fitzherbert, but their courtship had been disastrous: Royal laws forbade a Catholic widow like his beloved ...
For many years, this miniature of Maria Fitzherbert, the morganatic wife of George IV, was identified in Royal Collection inventories as another of his amours, the actress Mary Robinson (known as Perdita) but comparison with accepted portraits of Maria Fitzherbert, such as Sir Joshua Reynoldss portrait of c. 1788 (National Portrait Gallery, London), supports the current identification.
