Dearest Bess Stuart Dorothy Margaret
Elizabeth Foster, 'Bess' is one of the larger-than-life characters that occasionally flits across the pages of history. Born in 1757 as Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, the daughter of the eccentric…
Specifikacia Dearest Bess Stuart Dorothy Margaret
Elizabeth Foster, 'Bess' is one of the larger-than-life characters that occasionally flits across the pages of history. Born in 1757 as Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, the daughter of the eccentric Frederick Hervey, Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, she led a privileged life and married John Thomas Foster in 1777. Following their separation, Foster took her infant sons from her and the distressed Bess led a bitter life, made more tolerable by the kindness and affection shown to her by her best friend, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The friendship developed into a further intimate friendship with Georgiana's husband, the Duke of Devonshire, the subject of the 2008 film The Duchess starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. Soon Bess, Georgiana and the Duke were living in a m nage trois resulting in two illegitimate children, which Bess bore in exile in France, terrified of