[2][3] She was apparently widowed when she met the duke in Italy; he claimed to have converted her to Protestantism by lending her a Bible.

[5] Shortly afterwards, on 23 January 1706, a bill came before Parliament to enable her to be naturalised, and was passed as the Naturalization of Adelaide Duchess of Shrewsbury Act 1705 (4 & 5 Ann.

She was an equally big success with King George I, who arranged for her to become a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales.

[10] Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, thought that her eccentricity bordered on madness, but he agreed with her criticisms of the extreme of French ladies fashions and praised the simple, practical hairstyle which she made fashionable.

[11] Shrewsbury and his wife had no children, and at his death the dukedom became extinct, while the earldom passed to a cousin, Gilbert Talbot.