Ballroom differences and some other informaion There is some debate about where the Ballroom was I have not detailed all the arguments but thy are available in the source William Augustus Fraser s source as the weight of opinion is with him One person who disputed the exact position of the ballroom was the Duchess s daughter Georgiana who became Lady de Ros In his book Fraser expands on the differences and fairly convincingly shows that the the differences between the two versions can be reconciled Here is another version A great deal of nonsense has been written about the ball and probably the exact truth will never be known For instance the late Sir William Fraser who wrote a pamphlet now very rare on the battle declares that the ball room was on the first floor and that the Duke of Richmond s house stood in the Rue de la Blanchisserie The site is now covered by the large Hospital of the Nursing Sisters of the Order of St Augustine while the The Duchess of Richmond and the room itself is used as the granary of a brewery The ball room which was in existence in 1888 was 120 feet long by 34 feet broad and 13 feet high and was capable of holding 400 people On the other hand the Duchess s daughter Georgiana who became Lady de Ros and who died in 1891 at the age of 96 gives a different version in the charming reminiscences which were published in Murray s Magazine Lady Georgiana says in her reminiscences that the historic ballroom was on the ground floor and it was lent to the Duke by a coachbuilder The Duke s house she says was really No 9 Rue de Cendres Boulevard Botanique near the Porte de Cologne On this point she is quite explicit Lady de Ros says there were 175 invitations Sir William Fraser says there were 200 guests and 50 ladies Among those present were the Prince of Orange Prince Ferdinand of Orange the Duke of Brunswick the Duke of Aremberg whose eye had been accidentally destroyed by Sir William Gordon a diplomat in 1775 the Hon John Gordon afterwards Admiral and the Hon Sir Alexander Gordon who fell in the battle grandsons of the third Earl of Aberdeen Among the other guests was Lady Elizabeth Conyngham who in 1826 married the father of the present Marquis of Huntly by whom she had no issue It is difficult now to say how many of the Duchess s own daughters attended Tradition for instance declares that the younger daughter Louisa who married Mr Tighe and died in Ireland in March 1900 at t