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Maria Walpole (Westminster, 10 luglio 1736 – Brompton, 22 agosto 1807) fu un membro della famiglia reale britannica in quanto moglie del principe Guglielmo Enrico, duca di Gloucester ed Edimburgo. Il suo matrimonio con il Duca, senza il consenso di re Giorgio III , portò all'approvazione del Royal Marriages Act 1772 .
Robert Walpole, 1.° conde de Orford (Houghton, Norfolk, 1676 - Londres, 1745), conocido entre 1725 y 1742 como Sir Robert Walpole, fue un destacado político inglés, considerado de facto como la primera persona en ocupar el cargo de primer ministro del Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña.
Maria Walpole, who after her legitimation acquired the style of the daughter of an earl, as Lady Maria Walpole. In 1746 she married Colonel Charles Churchill (1720–1812) of Chalfont, an illegitimate son of General Charles Churchill, and became the king's housekeeper at Windsor Castle.
Maria Walpole (getauft 10. Juli 1736 in St James’s Church, Westminster ; † 22. August 1807 in London ) war durch erste Ehe Countess Waldegrave und durch zweite Ehe Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh und Mitglied des britischen Königshauses.
White marble bust of Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, head turned to left, looking upwards, hair dressed in coils and ringlets, wearing a lightly draped dress and shawl; on a turned socle.The British sculptor Chistopher Hewetson (c1736 – 1798) carried out this work in Rome some time between 1776 and 1777. Hewetson moved from Dublin to Rome in 1765 and he remained there for the rest of his life ...
21 de nov. de 2013 · Maria Walpole was baptized on 10 July 1736 at St James’, Westminster. Her father was Sir Edward Walpole, MP, a younger son of Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister, and her mother was Dorothy Clement, who had been apprenticed to a Covent Garden milliner.
By the 1730s, Walpole lived openly with his mistress Maria Skerrett, with whom he had already had a daughter. In March 1738, Walpole married her. But Maria died just a few months later in childbirth. Before leaving office, Walpole arranged to have his illegitimate daughter legitimised, and she became ‘Lady Maria Walpole’.
