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Early life

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Allegations

On 4 March 1767 the Duke of Cumberland allegedly married Olive Wilmot (later Mrs Payne), a commoner, in a secret ceremony. There reportedly was one child, Olivia Wilmot (1772-1834) from this relationship, though the duke's parenthood was never proven. A landscape painter and novelist, Olivia Wilmot married John Thomas Serres, 1759-1825, and later, controversially, assumed the style of Princess Olivia of Cumberland. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1767 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Princess Olive (about 1772 - 1834), was an eccentric pretender to the Royal Blood of England. ... Catherine IIs soldiers in the Russo-Turkish War, by Alexandre Benois. ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Marriage

The Duke's marriage to the commoner Lady Anne Horton (or Houghton) (1743-1808) on 2 October 1771 was the catalyst for the Royal Marriages Act 1772, which forbids any descendant of George II to marry without the monarch's permission. There were no children from this marriage. Lady Anne, though from a good family -- she was a daughter of Simon Luttrell, Earl of Carhampton, and the widow of Christopher Horton of Catton Hall -- seems to have been rather loose with her favors, given one wag's comment that she was "the Duke of Grafton's Mrs Houghton, the Duke of Dorset's Mrs Houghton, everyone's Mrs Houghton."^[1] October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 made it illegal for any member of the British royal family (defined as all descendants of King George II, excluding descendants of princesses who marry foreigners) under the age of 25 to marry without the consent of the ruling monarch. ... George II (George Augustus) (10 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. ...

The marriage between Anne Horton and Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, was described as a “conquest at Brighthelmstone” by Mrs. Horton, the widow of one Christopher Horton of Calton Park, Derbyshire, “who had for many months been dallying with his passion, till (sic) she had fixed him to more serious views than he had intended.”^[2]

Later life

The Duke of Cumberland died in London on 18 September 1790. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom. ... September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Titles, Styles, Honours & Arms

Titles

• 1745-1766: His Royal Highness Prince Henry Frederick of Wales
• 1766-1790: His Royal Highness The Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn

References

• Henry Churchyard "Royal Genealogies, Part 10"
• Sam Sloan "Big Combined Family Trees (pafg733)"

Citations

1. ^ Walpole, Horace. Memoirs and Portraits, 195.
2. ^ Walpole, Horace. Memoirs and Portraits, 244.

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), was a politician, writer and forerunner of the Gothic revival. ... Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), was a politician, writer and forerunner of the Gothic revival. ...

Nancy Parsons

It is, however, notable that the Mrs Houghton to whom Walpole refers may be Nancy (“Anne”) Parsons, the daughter of a Bond Street tailor, a noted prostitute of wit and beauty. According to Walpole, Nancy had been a figurante in the opera when she began supplementing her income by working as a highly-paid prostitute. Her youth and undeniable beauty (as attested by later portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds) subsequently caught the attention of a member of the Haughton dynasty of West Indies slave merchants, who married her and took her to Jamaica. Upon his death she returned to London and resumed her profession.

Ironically, Nancy Parson’s beauty had outlived many of her aristocratic detractors. In addition to a grand-manner portrait by Reynolds, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, a portrait of Nancy Parsons in Turkish masquerade dress, painted by George Willison in 1769, is held by the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Nor was she bereft of attention after she spurned the Duke’s platonic love. At the age of 40, Nancy Parsons turned to the very young and impressionable, 24-year old John Frederick Sackville, Duke of Dorset. In 1776 Parsons captivated and married another young aristocrat, Charles Maynard, second Viscount Maynard. In old age, it is said, Nancy devoted herself to pious good works.

External link

• Portrait of the Duchess of Cumberland