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18 de dic. de 2018 · In 1713, Charles Townshend, the second Viscount Townshend, married Dorothy Walpole, the sister of England’s first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. The pairing was Townshend’s second marriage, and rumor had it that Dorothy had once been the mistress of Lord Wharton, a royal playboy.
21 de may. de 2015 · According to legend, the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is the ghost of Lady Dorothy Walpole, sister of Robert Walpole, Britain’s first Prime Minister. She married Charles Townshend, lord of Raynham Hall, and is said to have committed adultery with a fellow lord. Although legal records state that she died and was buried in 1726, legend has it ...
It is unclear when claims that the photograph captured the ghost of the Brown Lady began to circulate, but the image bears very little resemblance to the earlier descriptions of Dorothy Walpole’s ghost, looking more like conventional representations of the Virgin Mary, which is what Lady Townshend initially identified it as.
29 de jun. de 2020 · Referred to as the Brown Lady due to the brown dress she is generally said to wear, most accounts agree that the ghost is that of Lady Dorothy Walpole, the younger sister of the UK’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole. Dorothy was the long-suffering wife of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, a close political ally of her brother.
6 de dic. de 2023 · Marchioness began to restore the faded glamour of this glorious hall. In addition to inheriting the estate, she also discovered she had inherited the former lady of the house who, it was said, still drifted through the red-brick hall. Passed down through generations, the story of Lady Dorothy Walpole had haunted the Townshend family for centuries.
D orothy W alpole was born in Houghton, Norfolk, in 1686, one of 19 children of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell Walpole. Dorothy's father was a member of the local gentry and a Whig. politician who represented the borough of Castle Rising in the House of Commons. H er mother was the daughter and heiress of Sir Geoffrey Burwell of Rougham, Suffolk.
Retrato de Dorothy Townshend, por Charles Jervas (hacia 1718). De acuerdo con la leyenda, la «dama marrón» era en realidad el fantasma de Dorothy Townshend (1686-1726), hermana del famoso político Robert Walpole. Dorothy era la segunda esposa de Charles Townshend, II vizconde
