Dorothea Jordan Dorothea Jordan Dorothea Jordan (22 November 17615 July 1816) also known interchangeably as Mrs Jordan, and previously Miss Francis or Miss Bland, was an Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan, and the mistress and companion of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom, for 20 years while he was Duke of Clarence. Together they had ten illegitimate children, all of whom took the surname "FitzClarence". Dorothea (often called Dorothy or Dora) Bland was born near Waterford, Ireland, on 22 November 1761, and was baptised at St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, on 5 December of that year. She was the third
Dorothea Brooking Dorothea Brooking Dorothea Brooking (née Smith Wright; 7 December 1916 – 23 March 1999) was an English children's television producer and director. She also adapted some works for the small screen (mainly early in her career) on which she worked in her other capacities. From a family of theatricals, she was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire (now part of Berkshire) and educated at Busage House and a finishing school in Montreux, Switzerland. Before the Second World War she was an actress, under the name Daryl Wilde, and a member of The Old Vic company, during which time she met her husband