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Lady Jasmine Cavendish is daughter of Amanda Heywood-Lonsdale and Peregrine Cavendish. She has husband Nick Dunne.
---- Devon (Counts). - Demonstrates Family of England after the French house of Courtenay. Hugh Courtenay 5th Baron, was the first member of this family who bore the title Earl of Devon (1335). In the Wars of the Roses, Devon Thomas died on the scaffold in 1466, his brother John was killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury, 1471. After their death the title passed to a collateral branch whose head Sir Edward Courtenay Boconnoo but this branch ceased to be in 1656. He was recaptured in 1768 by W. Courtenay, a baronet of Ireland and even England. --- Devonshire (Duke of), as that is since 1618 the Cavendish family, was taken to the county of Devon, but differs from that of the Earls of Devon. THE Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) - Lady Georgiana, daughter of the first Earl Spencer and poet of great beauty, was born in Althop, England. Great aunt of Princess Diana contemporary, beautiful sensitive and eccentric, his relationship with the Prince Regent, later George IV fueled gossip in London. Another of his feats was to have won the friendship of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. In politics, she was one of the first English women to advocate for the rights of her sex. Lady Georgiana married William Cavendish avaiet, 5th Duke of Devonshire, one of the richest men in the country. Their union was not happy. Muse of the Whig Party, his show of Devonshire House and Chiswick House, London, welcomed the cream of UK politics as James Craufurd, Charles James Fox, leader of the Whigs, Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount and Duke of Bronte, William Melbourne, the second son of Lord Melbourne and his wife, Lady Melbourne, Henry Richard Vassal Fox, third Baron Holland, Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles Watson-Wentworth, second Marquess of Rockingham, the Duke of Guignes, Ambassador of France , the niece of Georgiana, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Elizabeth Foster, Charles, second Earl Grey, her lover and Lady Harriet Bessborough. Painters Sir Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, did did not pray to immortalize a woman as attractive. During his trip to Great Britain, Juliette Recamier, was visited by the Duchess of Devonshire, she found, despite its almost fifty, yet fashionable and beautiful. Georgiana had an eye punctured it concealed beneath a lock of hair. |
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