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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 ...
Maria Anne Fitzherbert (previously Weld, née Smythe; 26 July 1756 – 27 March 1837) was a longtime companion of the future King George IV of the United Kingdom with whom she secretly contracted a marriage that was invalid under English civil law before his accession to the throne.
RCIN 935221. One of Richard Cosway’s finest drawings, this shows George’s lover, Maria Fitzherbert, sitting in a rustic glade. She wears a portrait miniature of George around her neck. The pair met in 1784 and secretly married in 1785, although the ceremony was not legitimate as George could not marry without his father’s consent.
30 giu 2007 · Bloomsbury Publishing, Jun 30, 2007 - History - 270 pages. One of the most extraordinary episodes in British royal history took place on 15 December 1785 when George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and George IV) secretly married the beautiful, twice-widowed and Roman Catholic Maria Fitzherbert. This marriage was in breach of the Royal ...
23 apr 2022 · Maria Fitzherbert, infatti, non era mai uscita di scena e Giorgio la considerava la sua vera moglie. Se Diana nutriva il sospetto che il principe Carlo frequentasse altre donne oltre Camilla, ...
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.
