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Dorothy Clement. Maria Walpole ( Londres, 10 de julho de 1736 — Londres, 22 de agosto de 1807) foi um membro da família real britânica, esposa do príncipe Guilherme Henrique. O seu casamento com o príncipe realizou-se sem o conhecimento do rei Jorge III e levou à criação do Decreto de Casamentos Reais de 1772.
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 .
Buy as a greetings card. Use this image. Maria (née Walpole), Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. by James Macardell, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. mezzotint, published 1 January 1762 (1760-1761) NPG D33044. Find out more >. Buy a print. Buy as a greetings card.
Maria was one of the three the illegitimate daughters of Hon. Edward Walpole of Frogmore House in Windsor, by Dorothy Clements, a charming and beautiful milliner from Darlington in Co. Durham. This lady bore him five children but, although a faithful lover, he never married her because he feared the opposition of his father, Sir Robert.
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 ...
Maria Walpole was one of five children born to Edward Walpole (son of the great British minister Robert Walpole) and his mistress Dorothy Clement, a shopgirl. When her mother died in 1739, Maria and her siblings were moved to their father's estate near Egham, where they were brought up like other aristocratic children despite their illegitimate birth.
