Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth died in Paris on 14 November 1734, aged 85. Some of Louise's descendants, Diana, Princess of Wales, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Sarah, Duchess of York and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, would eventually play major roles in the lives of later princes of the United Kingdom: Charles, Prince of Wales, Andrew, Duke of York and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (September 1649 – 14 November 1734) was a mistress of Charles II of England. Through her son by Charles II, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of
Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (née Pakenham; 14 January 1773 – 24 April 1831) was the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. She was commonly known before her marriage as Kitty Pakenham. The daughter of Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford, and the former Catherine Rowley, she was born Catherine Pakenham on 14 January 1773 in Dublin, Ireland. She became "The Honourable Catherine Pakenham" when her father succeeded as the 2nd Baron Longford in 1776. She had met Wellesley in Ireland when they were both young, and Wellesley, after numerous visits to