Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
ENGLAND'S TITLED LADIES.
An Interesting List of Noted DANES with
Shady Regulations.

'hauS
Marquise de Fontenoy, in the New York
Recorder: What a long list could be
drawn up of the English ladies of
title, some of them still married and
others divorced, who, for one reason or an
other have incurred the Ill will of London
society, and have in consequence been os-
tracised. Sometime ago l referred in these
columns to the cases of the Duchess Of
Sutherland, OF Lady Colin Campbell and
Lady Beaumont. l should certainly have
included in the list the Countess of Shrews-
bury and Talbot the wife of the premier
earl of England. She is handsome woman
who has become accustomed TO the inviG-
ious position which she occupies. For
neither in town nor in the country is she
visited by any woman in good standing.
She was formerly the wife OF MIR. Mundy,
from whom she eloped with young Lord
Shrewsbury. man several years her jun
iOr, and whose sole appearance IN public up
to that time had been as defendant in 4 po-
lice court case. After being soundly whip
ped by the deserted husband, the young
earl travelled with his ipamorita all over
the continent under an assumed name. On
becoming tired of journeying by land he
chartered d yacht, on which he cruised
about in the Mediterranean with Mrs.
Mundy and her grown-up brothers, Sorely
TO the embarrassment of the British con-
suls al the ports visited by this Queerly as
sorted party. o.
Having ventured to run over to England
alone for few days, the earl encountered
Mrs. Mundy's mother at a railroad station
and was publicly chastised by the irate old
lady with Il ponderouS umbrella. The di-
vorce decree nisi was made absolute, and
her marriage TO Lord Shrewsbury took
place only couple of weeks previous to the
birth of the present heir to the earldom.
The countess is a woman OF almost as vlo
lent "a = her mot her 81 trait of which
her husband is aware to his cost. She
bears her social oStracism with consider
able equanimity, and her husbaud's wealth
enables her to find many amusements and
pastimes which serve to gid the otherwise
bitter pill of being debarred from the priv
ileges ordinarily belonging to her rank. A
woman of excellent birth, of refine
ment and education, she surely
cannot remain Indifferent to the
fact that she is treated by
society, both in town and in the country.
precisely as if she were of the same char
acter as the Marchioness of Ailesbury. nee
Dolly Tester; the Countess of Clancarty,
nee Belle Billion, or the Countess of Graf
ton, nee Kate Cook, who was once one of
the most notorious and disreputable demi-
mondaines in London. and who will, on the
death of her husbands father, become the
Duchess OF Grafton.
Among other women of rank, treated as
if they belonged to the same category, are
the Dowager Countess of AyleSford, who
eloped with the Duke of Marlborough. the
Lady de la Zouche, who eloped with Lord
Mayo; Lady Mordaunt, Lady Ida Wilson,
the sister of the Duke of Fife: Lady Grant
ley, who eloped with her present husband
and whose son and heir to the title was
born exactly five days after her marriage
to him; Lady Miles, the wife of Sir Philip
Miles, who was the ministering angel of the
late Duke of Rutland, for SO many years !;
the Countess of Desart, who eloped with
the actor Sugden, and many others.