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Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave (25 March 1760 – 29 January 1816), was a British noblewoman, courtier and society beauty. She served at court as a Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of King George III.〔Women of History- W, www.abitofhistory.net〕〔The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 58. p.827. Google Books, retrieved 22-10-10〕〔According to one of the letters of Mrs. Patrick Delany, Elizabeth attended the two eldest princesses, Charlotte and Augusta. ''Letters from Mrs. Delany (widow of Doctor Patrick Delany) to Mrs. Frances Hamilton from the year 1779 to the year 1788. comprising many unpublished and interesting anecdotes of their late royal majesties and the royal family: now first printed from the original manuscripts'', published by The Library of University of California Los Angeles. p.32. Google Books, retrieved 21 October 2010〕 She married her cousin, George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave in 1782.〔Burke, John (1832). ''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume 11''. London. p.580〕 Lady Elizabeth was the subject of portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and other painters. ==Family== Lady Elizabeth Laura was born on 25 March 1760,〔Weir, Alison (1999), ''British Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy''. The Bodley Head, London. p.279〕 the eldest daughter of statesman James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave and Maria Walpole, the illegitimate child of Sir Edward Walpole by his mistress, Dorothy Clement. She had two younger sisters, Lady Charlotte Maria, later wife of the 4th Duke of Grafton, and Lady Anna Horatia, who would marry Lord Hugh Seymour. When Elizabeth was three years of age, her father died of smallpox. As he had no sons, the title Earl Waldegrave passed to his brother, John. Elizabeth and her sisters subsequently took up residence with their mother at Ragman's Castle, a house in Twickenham. On 6 September 1766, her mother married secondly, and in secret, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, a member of the British Royal Family as the younger brother of King George III.〔David Nash Ford, ''Royal Berkshire History, Maria Walpole'', retrieved 21 October 2010〕 It was this marriage, made without the King's consent, which had led to the passing of the Royal Marriages Act in 1772. Elizabeth acquired three half-siblings, Princess Sophia, Princess Carolina (1774–1775), and Prince William Frederick by her mother's second marriage to the Royal duke. She and her sisters then lived at Windsor Castle and Sophia Lodge in Clewer, both in Berkshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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