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Victoria Constance Mary Somerset, duchesse de Beaufort (née Princesse Mary de Teck et plus tard Lady Mary Cambridge ; 12 juin 1897 - 23 juin 1987) est la fille aînée d'Adolphus Cambridge (1er marquis de Cambridge) et de Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor.
24 de feb. de 2011 · Mary Somerset, first Duchess of Beaufort, was respected in her day as a collector and cultivator of plants, both exotic and common, on her estate in Badminton. And yet, when she writes to Sir Robert Southwell in 1694, she is surprisingly humble about her achievements, calling hers an ‘innocent diversion of gardening’.
This essay therefore aims to reposition Mary Somerset as an active agent of colonial botany, not just a bystander or less significant practitioner. This essay also queries what the implications are of acknowledging women’s role in what was an enterprise that arguably enabled the subordination of plants, women, and native Others.
Mary & George: Created by D.C. Moore. With Julianne Moore, Nicholas Galitzine, Tony Curran, Mark O'Halloran. The Countess of Buckingham who molded her son to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover, through intrigue, becoming richer, more titled and influential than England has ever seen.
Queen Anne confronts Mary about the Earl of Somerset's unwavering presence, now a two-fold nuisance due to his detestable wife. George is approached by Sir Francis Bacon , who seeks an allyship. After meeting with the Earl of Essex , the "cursed" ex-husband of Countess Somerset, Mary learns of a murder plot against Thomas Overbury in 1613 enacted by the Somersets and passes the evidence on to ...
7 de mar. de 2024 · Not So Much as Love as by Awe. In Episode 3 of Mary & George, Robert makes George watch him sleep with the King while Sandie gets Mary ready for court. Her first day is a disaster as she dresses up in Elizabethan fashion. Robert and his wife, a pregnant Countess Somerset keep the King’s attention on them with their play-acting.
Mary, Duchess of Beaufort, Stich von Joseph Nutting nach einem Gemälde von Robert Walker. Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (geborene Capell, getauft am 16. Dezember 1630 in Hadham Parva, Little Hadham, East Hertfordshire; gestorben 7. Januar 1715 in Chelsea, Middlesex) war eine englische Adlige und Botanikerin .
