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The Countess - The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (Hardcover)
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The Countess - The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (Hardcover)
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One of the great beauties of Georgian society, Frances Villiers,
Countess of Jersey, was a woman of enormous style and spirit whose
life revolved around her pleasures. Clever and witty, her charm was
legendary, earning her the nickname in the contemporary press of
'The Enchantress'. She glittered in an aristocratic century.
However, she was also unprincipled and malevolent. After providing
her husband with an heir, she duly abandoned the dull
respectability of married life for the whirl of the faster set of
society and a number of high-profile and scandalous affairs.
Through her relationship with the Prince Regent, she enraged the
country and threatened the monarchy, blackening the prince's
reputation for posterity. Despite being demonised by historians and
subjected to rumour and myth, this is the first biography ever
written of her extraordinary and dramatic life. Tim Clarke
skilfully pieces together the truth about the Countess of Jersey,
and dispels many of the assumptions that, even in the highest
academic circles, continue to surround her to this day, leaving us
with a very intimate portrait of a life lived in defiance of social
convention.
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