Maria Howard, Duchess of Norfolk

Her health was also bad and in 1698, she was taken to the Jacobite court at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France, where she was treated by William Waldegrave, James II's doctor.

[2][3] Although Catholics were not allowed to get married in public, the celebratory dinner at Shireburne House in St James's Square was a lavish affair.

[1] The couple lived at various residences, including Arundel Castle in West Sussex, Worksop Manor in Nottinghamshire, and the house on St James Square in London.

[1][4] When her husband was arrested on 29 October 1722 under suspicion of involvement in a Jacobite plot and imprisoned in the Tower of London, the Duchess was not allowed to visit him.

[5] The childless marriage was reputedly unhappy due to the Duchess's strong Catholic and Jacobite feelings, which her husband may have wanted to suppress for political reasons.

[8] She left property in Lancashire, London, Middlesex, Northumberland and Yorkshire, as well as estates in Blackburn, Ormskirk and the Isle of Man.

[1] The 34 piece silver-gilt toilet service made in 1708, and presented by her father to the Duchess of Norfolk on her marriage, was granted an export licence to Australia in 2012, despite objections by the Victoria and Albert Museum.