English and British royal mistress period. Afterwards, he rejected any possible marriage he might have made with Mrs. Fitzherbert. His other notable mistresses included Mary Robinson, Frances Twysden, Grace Elliott, Isabella Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford and Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham. George IV and his legitimate wife Caroline of Brunswick were never fond of their arranged marriage and lived separately from 1796 to her death on 7 August 1821. Their only daughter Princess Charlotte of Wales was born very early in the marriage. That both George and Caroline took other lovers was not therefore unexpected. George survived his only legitimate daughter. He was succeeded by his
Frances Mary Richardson Currer Frances Mary Richardson Currer Frances Mary Richardson Currer (3 March 1785 – 28 April 1861) was a British heiress and book collector. Frances Mary Richardson Currer was born shortly after the death of her father, Richard Richardson Currer in 1785. Shortly before he died, he had added the surname Currer to his own name. This was a condition of a substantial inheritance from Sarah Currer, the grand daughter of Matthew Wilson who had built Eshton Hall. Frances received two substantial inheritances which included her grandfather's library. She had always had an interest in books and now she owned her grandfather's