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The Hastings affair began when Lady Flora Hastings, a maid of honour who was allied and connected to the Tories, was forced by Victoria to undergo a medical examination for suspected pregnancy. The gossip, when it was discovered that the queen had been mistaken, became the more damaging when later in the year Lady Flora died of a disease that had not been diagnosed by the examining physician.
1 de may. de 2022 · A victorian scandal of a lady in waiting of kensington palace.Lady Flora Hastings was on Queen victorias mothers payroll as her lady in waiting, she was ther...
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1 de mar. de 2022 · Lady Flora Elizabeth Rawdon-Hastings (11 February 1806 – 5 July 1839) was a British aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent. Her death in 1839 caused a court scandal that gave the Queen a negative image. Flora was also a poet; her work, Poems by the lady Flora Hastings, was published posthumously by her ...
Thou wert so bless'd, thou couldst not share The darkness of my doom ; Thou wert a flower too sweet, too rare, To cheer the desert's gloom. But years are past, and thou hast known Youth's noon-dreams fade away ; The light of doudless mirth is flown, And rapture's fleeting ray. Appears in 9 books from 1841-1865.
Lady Flora Hastings, född 1806, död 1839, var en brittisk hovfunktionär. Hon var hovfröken åt drottning Viktorias mor, Viktoria av Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld . År 1839 misstänktes Flora Hastings för att vara gravid, eftersom hennes mage hade vuxit synbart.
Lady Flora Hastings was one woman Victoria deeply mistrusted when news broke in the early days of the Queen's reign and one that would cause a massive scanda...
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early 1839, 32-year-old Lady Flora Hastings, lady-in-waiting to Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the Duchess of Kent; found herself at the center of a national scandal in which she was attacked and vilified by none other than her patroness’ daughter, 20-year-old Queen Victoria.
