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Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, também conhecida como Kitty Pakenham (Dublin, 14 de janeiro de 1773 — Apsley House, 24 de abril de 1831) era a filha de Edward Michael Pakenham, 2.º Barão Longford e Catherine Rowley.
- Marriage to Arthur Wellesley
- Duchess of Wellington
- Death
Pakenham had been a pretty, vivacious girl when Wellesley had met her ten years before, but she had been very ill in 1795–6, during his absence, and was thin, pale and in poor health by the time he informed their mutual friend Olivia Sparrow that he was returning to England and that she should "renew the proposition he had made some years ago" on h...
She became the Duchess of Wellington on Wellesley's creation as the Duke of Wellington on 3 May 1814 and eventually joined him in France when he was appointed Ambassador after Napoleon's exile to Elba. Lady Elizabeth Yorke commented that "her appearance, unfortunately, does not correspond with one's notion of an ambassadress or the wife of a hero, ...
She became seriously ill in 1831, which brought Wellington to her bedside. She ran a finger up his sleeve to find if he was still wearing an armlet she had once given him, "She found it, as she would have at any time these past twenty years, had she cared to look for it" remarked Wellington.: 284 "How strange it was", he went on to say, "that peopl...
Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, também conhecida como Kitty Pakenham (Dublin, 14 de janeiro de 1773 — Apsley House, 24 de abril de 1831) era a filha de Edward Michael Pakenham, 2.º Barão Longford e Catherine Rowley.
14 de jan. de 2019 · Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington was commonly known as Kitty Pakenham. She was born in Dublin, Ireland on 14 January 1773 to Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford and Catherine Rowley.
21 de jun. de 2015 · Durante más de diez años, un joven soldado vivió soñando con una dama de la alta sociedad irlandesa a la que se le había negado la mano por no ser de alcurnia. Aquel joven soldado había marchado a Holanda y la lejana India donde tuvo una carrera militar vertiginosa.
Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, by Thomas Lawrence. Wellington first courted Catherine (Kitty) Pakenham in Dublin in 1792. He was a debt-ridden 23-year-old captain of light dragoons. Kitty was the 19-year-old daughter of the Earl of Longford, an Irish peer.
8 de nov. de 2019 · This time, it's the Wellingtons (Wellesleys) – descendants of the Duke of Wellington. It was the high-society wedding of the year: a pre-wedding dinner in the Moorish splendour of the Alhambra Palace, royals British and European among the guests at the Granada church.
