Charlotte Maria Radclyffe, 3rd Countess of Newburgh

She was the daughter of Charles Livingston, 2nd Earl of Newburgh (1664–1694) and Lady Frances Brudenell (d. 1736),[1] an Irish aristocrat who is best known as the subject of a satire in which she was portrayed as the leader of a society of Lesbians.

Her grandfather was a Member of Parliament for Cirencester who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War before his death in December 1670.

Before his death on 2 December 1718, she was the mother of two children with Clifford:[3] Charlotte was attacked in her bedroom by Charles Radclyffe, de jure Earl of Derwentwater, who had climbed down the chimney.

Radclyffe, a younger son of Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater and Lady Mary Tudor (an illegitimate daughter of King Charles II), had previously made fifteen marriage proposals, but after the attack she had little choice but to marry him on 24 June 1724.

The earldom returned to the descendants of Thomas Clifford,[4] starting with Prince Vincenzo Giuseppe Filippo Graziliano Giacopo Gasparo Baldassaro Melchior Domenico Giustiniani, 6th Prince of Bassano Romano, Duke of Corbara and de jure 6th Earl of Newburgh.