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Harriet Mordaunt in the mid-1860s. Harriet Sarah, Lady Mordaunt ( néeMoncreiffe; 7 February 1848 – 9 May 1906) was the Scottish wife of an English baronet and member of parliament, Sir Charles Mordaunt. She was the respondent in a sensational divorce case in which the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) was embroiled, and after a counter ...
Bright Future. At the age of eighteen, Harriet Sarah Moncreiffe had everything a young Scottish girl could hope for in landing a splendid match: youth and beauty, an impeccable family lineage, and a faultless reputation. When she married baronet Sir Charles Mordaunt in 1866, she acquired a title and an ancestral home to boot.
- Tonya Mitchell
Sep 17, 2023 · Harriet Mordaunt, born Harriet Moncreiffe in 1848, was a Scottish noble entangled in one of Victorian England's most scandalous affairs. Married to Sir Charl...
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Jan 18, 2022 · Women continued to exist at the mercy of men. In 1869, Sir Charles Mordaunt petitioned for divorce from his wife Lady Harriet Mordaunt on the grounds of her adultery. Lady Mordaunt’s ...
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Some people were unsure whether Harriet Mordaunt was actually insane or in fact may have feigned this, making ‘use’ of insanity to protect herself. Historians have taken mixed views on this whole affair, so that the chapter investigates these different views of the agency of aristocratic women and maps these onto the ‘archaeology of reputation’ of Harriet Mordaunt.
Harriet Sarah, Lady Mordaunt was the Scottish wife of an English baronet and member of parliament, Sir Charles Mordaunt. She was the respondent in a sensational divorce case in which the Prince of Wales was embroiled, and after a counter-petition led to a finding of mental disorder she spent the remaining 36 years of her life out of sight in a series of privately rented houses, and then in ...
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On 6 December 1866, 18 year old Harriet Moncrieffe married Sir Charles Mordaunt, at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Perth. Less than three years later her husband brought divorce proceedings against her on the grounds of adultery. However her family claimed that she was suffering from insanity triggered by the birth of her daughter, Violet.
