Her husband considered sex to be 'necessary to a woman's health and happiness'. Arriving home after a trip to London 'a dear little child runs in to me and puts its arms round my neck.
The result was huge debts and a family so large that she sometimes failed to recognise her children. The more she spent, the more excited he became. For her doting husband, the Earl of Kildare, Emily and expenditure were coupled together. Painting her, Joshua Reynolds remarked that she had 'a sweetness of expression hard for a painter to capture'. Their descendants were Napier generals, Fox politicians and Fitzgerald patriots, but they are interesting on their own merits, as dynamic individuals, and affectionate and literate sisters.Įmily was the glamorous, extravagant one. They were indeed aristocrats and, as such, expected to marry well and to found further great dynasties. All taint of bastardy had disappeared by the time they were born. His daughters, the Lennox sisters, are the subject of this fascinating book. This Duke was a grandson of Charles II and his mistress Louise de Keroualle. He could have said the same of the four daughters of the house. His friend Lord Hervey remarked that the erotic behaviour of Richmond's animals was 'an allegorical epitome of the whole matrimonial world'. When a favourite lioness died, her owner built her a magnificent marble tomb in his park, where her bones still lie among the trees. There were tigers, bears, wolves, leopards and an armadillo, to name but a few. IN HEATED catacombs beneath Goodwood House lived the pampered menagerie of the second Duke of Richmond.
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