Through this connection, the 1st Duke had been granted many titles in England and France, and perhaps more importantly, wealth through an annuity and a share of certain coal taxes in Newcastle.

[3] The Lennox family's royal connections increased in 1727 when the 2nd Duke and Duchess's obtained court appointments under King George II and Queen Caroline.

At age fourteen Sarah returned to London with a dowry of £10,000 to find a worthy husband, staying at Holland House, the home of another sister, Lady Caroline Fox.

Over a two-year period, he fell in love with her and eventually confided his feelings in his advisor Lord Bute, who told him marriage plans with a non-royal spouse were not possible.

Sarah, flattered by the attention and fond of the newly crowned king, was later surprised and disappointed to learn of his betrothal to Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Charles Bunbury, twenty-two year old MP for Suffolk, often attended political discussions at Holland House and began courting her.

Though the eldest son of Reverend Sir William Bunbury, 5th Baronet, he was not considered by her family to have a large enough fortune for them to live in fashionable society.

Sir Charles refused to take her back, and Lady Sarah returned to her brother's house with her child, while her husband introduced into Parliament a motion for a divorce on grounds of adultery, citing her elopement.