The stylish Lady Harrington walking in pastoral nature painted by Reynolds in 1775. Lord Petersham became Earl of Harrington on his father's death the following April, and the marriage took place in at St Marylebone in London on 23 May. By October 1778, rumours began circulating that the match would never actually take place.
His father, the 2nd Earl of Harrington, was deeply indebted, however, and the legal negotiations between the two families led to the postponement of the marriage. At the age of 23, Jane Fleming became engaged to the two years older Charles Stanhope, Viscount Petersham, a war hero who had recently returned from North America to England. The death of her father in 1763 left her and her sisters co-heiresses to an enormous fortune of £100,000. Jane Fleming was the eldest of five children of Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet and his wife Jane (née Coleman), as well as the elder sister of the scandalous Seymour Dorothy Fleming. Jane Stanhope, Countess of Harrington (née Fleming – 3 February 1824), was a society hostess and heiress who served as a lady of the Bedchamber to the British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington
0 kommentar(er)
