Letter from Maria Anne Fitzherbert to W. Jutsham concerning Captain John Willett Payne, 1795, July .

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Letter from Maria Anne Fitzherbert to W. Jutsham concerning Captain John Willett Payne, 1795, July .

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This letter to a W. Jutsham of 6 Milson Street, Bath, postmarked July 1795, thanks him for his welcome news of the recovery from illness and restoration to better health of "Captain Payne" (later Rear Admiral John Willett Payne, 1752-1803), the British naval officer responsible for bringing Caroline of Brunswick to England for her disastrous marriage to the Prince of Wales.

2 pages, 23 cm.

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Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837

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The twice widowed and Roman Catholic "Mrs. Fitzherbert", born Maria Anne Smythe ( and married successively to Edward Weld and Thomas Fitzherbert) attracted the affection of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) and was secretly married to him in 1785, a union not recognized under English law. Although they lived together intermittently for some years in dubious quasi-respectability, the Prince had numerous other affairs, and in April 1795 he married officially and for reasons of state his cousin...

Jutsham, J. fl.1795

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