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,
Villiers Hatton Villiers Hatton Major-General Villiers Hatton CB (8 October 1852 – 18 June 1914) was Commander of British Troops in South China. Hatton was born on 8 October 1852. He was the son of Lt.-Col. Villiers La Touche Hatton (1824–1897) and Rosia Mary de Bathe (d. 1895). His father served as High Sheriff of Wexford from 1862–63. His siblings were Rosia Mary Hatton, Madeline Frances Hatton (d. 1926), who married Maj.-Gen. Sir William Henry Mackinnon (1852–1929), and William De Bathe Hatton (b. 1855). His paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral Villiers Francis Hatton and Henrietta La Touche (d. 1866). His grandfather was the