By Hallie Rubenhold
She was once a lively younger heiress. He used to be a good-looking baronet with a promising occupation in govt. the wedding of girl Seymour Dorothy Fleming and Sir Richard Worsley had the makings of a fairy tale—but ended as essentially the most scandalous and hugely publicized divorces in history.
In February 1782, England opened its newspapers to learn the main points of a legal dialog trial during which the good-looking baronet Sir Richard Worsley tried to sue his wife’s lover for an astronomical sum in damages. through the court cases, the Worsleys’ scandalous sexual preparations, voyeuristic trends, and bed-hopping antics have been laid naked. The trial and its verdict surprised society, yet now not up to the unrepentant habit of woman Worsley.
Sir Joshua Reynolds captured the brazen personality of his topic while he created his celebrated portrait of woman Worsley in a fashionable pink using behavior, however it was once her surprising affairs that made her divorce so notorious that even George Washington it within the press. Impeccably researched and written with nice aptitude, this energetic and relocating real historical past offers a hardly noticeable photograph of aristocratic lifestyles within the Georgian period.
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