Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon

Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon (née Dyve; 11 December c. 1677 – 1 January 1742) was a British Lady in Waiting.

[1] Her exact date of birth is unknown, although her birthday was given as 11 December in poems dedicated to Charlotte by the poet Mary Jones.

The Duchess of Marlborough is thought to have interceded so that Charlotte Clayton became a woman of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline from 1714 until 1737.

She was mistrusted by Robert Walpole who accused her of taking a bribe of a pair of earrings to help the husband of Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret.

The Queen's death was a great blow to her, and in her last years, she was afflicted with a painful tumour as well as (according to gossip) bouts of insanity.