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Frances Villiers (née Twysden), Countess of Jersey. by Thomas Watson, after Daniel Gardner. mezzotint, published 1774. NPG D3174. Find out more >. Buy a print. Buy as a greetings card. Use this image. 'The lover's dream'.
Early life. She was born Frances Twysden, daughter of Rev. Philip Twysden, Bishop of Raphoe (1746–1752) and Frances Carter. When she was seventeen, she married George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, who was nearly twenty years older and was Master of Horse to the Prince of Wales and a Lord of the Bedchamber.
Frances Villiers, comtesse de Jersey, née Frances Twysden le 25 février 1753 à St. James's et morte le 23 juillet 1821 à Cheltenham, est l'une des maîtresses les plus connues et les plus influentes du roi George IV à l'époque où il n'est encore que prince de Galles.
7 de out. de 2020 · He died in November 1752, prior to Frances’s birth, after allegedly being shot while trying to rob a stagecoach. She had one older sister, Mary (born 1751), who died in infancy. On March 26, 1770, Frances married George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, who was more than twice her age.
13 de mar. de 2020 · Lady Frances Howard was the daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Elizabeth Home. [1] She married Sir Edward Villiers, son of Sir Edward Villiers and Barbara St. John. [1] She died circa November 1677. [2] She was buried on 27 November 1677 at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. [2] Her married name became Villiers.
24 de set. de 2017 · Frances Coke Villiers was raised in a world which demanded women to be obedient, silent, and chaste. At the age of fifteen, Frances was forced to marry John Villiers, the elder brother of the Duke of Buckingham, as a means to secure her father’s political status. Defying both social and religious convention, Frances had an affair with Sir Robert Howard, and soon became pregnant with his ...
8 de mar. de 2024 · There was one last royal favourite connected to the Villiers family: Frances Twysden (1753-1821). No stranger to scandal from the moment of her birth, she had been born posthumously to the Right Reverend Philip Twysden (from a Kent family), who, despite being Bishop of Raphoe in the Church of Ireland, was shot dead in 1752 while (allegedly) attempting to rob a stagecoach near London.
