Caroline Graham, Duchess of Montrose

Caroline Maria Graham, Duchess of Montrose (10 August 1770[1] – 24 March 1847), formerly Lady Caroline Maria Montagu, was the second wife of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose.

She was the daughter of George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Dashwood.

She married Montrose on 24 July 1790,[2] at Kensington Palace.[3] He was fifteen years her senior, and had previously been married to Lady Jemima Elizabeth, daughter of John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham;[4] their only child had died in infancy.

The duke and duchess had six children:

  • Lady Georgiana Charlotte Graham (died 1835), who married George William Finch, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, and had children
  • Lady Emily Graham (died 1900), who married Edward Thomas Foley and had no children
  • Lady Caroline Graham (died 1875), who died unmarried
  • Lady Lucy Graham (1793–1875), who married Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, and had children
  • James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose (1799–1874), who succeeded his father in the dukedom
  • Lord Montagu William Graham (1807–1878), who married Hon. Harriet Anne Bateman-Hanbury and had no children

The duke, prior to his second marriage, had been a lover of the notorious Seymour Fleming, Lady Worsley, who, in February 1782, was the subject of a criminal conversation case for £20,000 (2015: £2,220,000), brought by her husband against Bisset. Lady Worsley retaliated with scandalous revelations, and her doctor, William Osborn, testified that she had suffered from a venereal disease which she had contracted from the Marquess of Graham.[5]

The duchess was allegedly one of the titled ladies who hissed at Queen Victoria in the royal enclosure at Ascot Racecourse in 1839, following the scandal over the queen's treatment of Lady Flora Hastings.[6]

The duke died in 1836. The duchess died, aged 76, at Petersham, Surrey.

Fictional portrayals

In the 2009 film The Young Victoria, the duchess is played by Alice Glover.[7]

gollark: Okay then. As I said, balance is not an enforced law, as far as anyone knows, on human concepts, and I think you could plausibly increase net happiness in some fairly simple ways if you had omnipotent control of Earth.
gollark: I MIGHT.
gollark: Why not?
gollark: Well, they are concepts, yes, what is your point here?
gollark: There is not some law of physics saying Σbad = Σgood or something. Although humans apparently might have this "happiness set point" thing going on.

References
  1. George Naylor, The Registers of Thorrington (n.n.: n.n., 1888).
  2. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
  3. "Montrose, Duchess of, nee Lady Caroline Montagu" (PDF). Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  4. L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 14.
  5. Rubenhold, Hallie (2008). Lady Worsley's Whim. London: Vintage Books.
  6. Julia Baird (22 November 2016). Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire. Little, Brown Book Group. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-0-349-13449-9.
  7. "Alice Glover". British Film Institute. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
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