Soon after that, he "honoured" Mrs, FitzHerbert with his attentions. 'She was a young widow, and her beauty, charm and grace' were for the moment the talk of London society, Married at nineteen to an elderly husband who died within a year, she wedded a wealthy Irish Jandowner Who lett her a considerable fortune. The Irish husband ied when she was only twenty-five. She was not a clever woman, Dut thay corrupt age, the rare excep-tina domesticated and virtuous one.
'When George, Prince of Wales, frst met the' young beauty, thought that she would prove the usual easy conquest. In a way, she was, for she fell deeply and sincere-Tave with the handsome and courtly young man. But Mary Fitz~ Herbert was a Roman Catholic, and had been rigidly brought up in an Irish convent, She declined—very firmly—to become the Prince's mistress.
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