Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey his "wife", Maria Fitzherbert, with whom he had undergone a form of marriage in a clandestine Church of England ceremony that all parties to it knew was invalid under the Royal Marriages Act 1772. Having encouraged the Prince of Wales to marry his first cousin, Caroline of Brunswick in 1794, Lady Jersey nevertheless set out to make Caroline's life difficult. However, the now Princess of Wales (Caroline) had very little regard for George IV, nor he for her, and after the birth of their child, they lived apart during their twenty-five year marriage, leaving a void Frances and other mistresses,
Mary Frances Gunner Mary Frances Gunner Mary Frances Gunner (November 9, 1894 – ?) was an American playwright and community leader based in Brooklyn, New York. Mary Frances Gunner was born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Hillburn, New York, the daughter of Rev. Byron Gunner and Cicely Savery Gunner. Her parents, both born in Alabama, were active in public life; her father was vice-president of the National Independence Equal Rights League, and her mother, a teacher, was president of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs. Her grandfather William Savery was a founder of Talladega College. She finished at Suffern High School