Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland
Caroline Lennox, 1st Baroness Holland, full name Lady Georgiana Caroline Lennox ( born March 27, 1723 in Richmond House, Whitehall, † July 24, 1774 in Holland House, Kensington, London) was a British nobleman.
Origin
Caroline's grandfather, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, was born in 1672 as the youngest of the many illegitimate sons of King Charles II. His mother, Caroline's great-grandmother was Louise de Kérouaille (1648-1734), who had been sent as a young woman aged 20 years with courtiers and diplomats of King Louis XIV to England, which the negotiations to the later so- secret and notorious contract led by Dover. Louise ousted Charles reigning mistress, Barbara Villiers, and was appointed by Charles II to the Duchess of Portsmouth. Louis XIV, in turn, recognized their merits for his country, by talking about her appropriated the lands of the Stuarts in France. Together with the land they received two locks, and Aubigny La Verrerie. For recreation, Louise stayed occasionally at Aubigny, and Caroline visited her great-grandmother there in the late 1720s.
Life
Previous years
Lady Caroline was born as the first of the seven children of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond ( 1701-1750 ), and his wife Lady Sarah ( 1706-1751 ), daughter of William Cadogan, Richmond House, Whitehall, 1723. After Caroline's birth in 1723 Emily came in 1731. Charles, who was eventually to become the third Duke, was born in 1735. George, named in homage to the king so, saw the light of day in 1737, then followed Louisa in 1743, Sarah in 1745 and Cecilia in 1750.
During her childhood, Caroline was constantly dragged from place to place, just as the court moved to dissolve the court society and re- formed. If the king was staying in London's St. James 's Palace, the Lennox family was the convenience of Richmond House, about a mile away, enjoy. The king gifted but after Kensington, Hampton Court or Windsor, the entire Lennox family had to follow. Caroline's mother belonged to the court of the Queen, where she fulfilled tasks. She gave orders for meals and wardrobe, sent servants for books, cards, prints, handmade bags or other pastime, leaving for a list of visitors to. Her father was doing similar services for the king, in 1735 the title of the royal equerry Oberhof, he was awarded.
The Lennox Children were almost bilingual and read English as easily as French. In Caroline's library and in those of their sisters English and French books were balanced. She enjoyed reading, loved stories as a child and developed a fondness for the Roman history, which they maintained throughout their lives. Her parents took over their clear vision of righteousness, duty and loyalty to the family and was afraid all the time that they did not meet their expectations of good behavior. Despite all this, she was a confident and well-developed girl, confident presentation in society and practiced in the art of polite conversation. Since Caroline spent her early childhood without companions in the nursery, she was the center of the family; quite extravagant she was showered with attention, both from both parents as well as the elderly Louise de Kéroualle.
Henry Fox
Around the year 1742, when she was nineteen years old, was considered a beauty and was determined by their parents to make a good match, learned Caroline Henry Fox and fell in love deeply and passionately in love with him. At this time Henry Fox was 37 years old, an ambitious and befähigtes Parliament member who was obsessed with the policy and, in particular, took the sensitive matters of the House of Commons in the hand. He was extremely well read, wrote verses and had a gift for friends and family life. Even his reputation as an atheist, as a player and womanizer (two illegitimate children who were born in the early 1740s ) made it irresistible for them. Caroline Fox and moved in the same circles. At the societal level, if not confidential, they had met in the 1730s at Goodwood and on many other occasions since then in the salons of Whitehall and in the theater.
Marriage
On May 2, 1744 Lady Caroline and Henry Fox were Sir Charles Hanbury Williams married secretly and quietly without a stir in his silent friend, the satirist and diplomats London home. Hanbury Williams and Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, an old crony of Fox from the days of his friendship with Lord Hervey, were the only witnesses. From their marriage were four sons, Stephen, Harry, Charles James and Henry George, out.
Initially Henry and Caroline were very dependent on each other as a common conspirator. She could no longer visit her family and felt betrayed by her parents; his parents had died, and his brother Stephen had buried in his rural idyll from which he emerged rare. Caroline was prohibited to meet with her sister Emily, on which they had relied in the heady days of their young love, and she had few friends outside the family. Her father refused even to receive only one of his acquaintance, who his daughter abstattete about visits.
Affair
Mid -1750s, rumors were circulating that Lady Caroline a liaison with the later British King George III. have. The paternity of her youngest son was also doubted.
In 1762 she became the Baroness Holland, of Holland in the County of Lincoln, charged. The following year her husband became the independent title of Baron Holland, of Foxley in the County of Wiltshire. Both titles went over to the eldest son after her death.