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All the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night and were not the worse thought of
Samuel Johnson
Sir Murrough O’Brien, Marquess of Thomond, was riding through Grosvenor Square one February morning in 1808 when his fell from his horse, smashed his head on the pavement, was run over by a cart and died the same day. He was not a fashionable member of the
bon ton, but was important enough to have an obituary. What could be said about him? He was a six bottle man, said the newspapers- a celebrated six bottle man. Alcohol did not cut short his life however; he was 82.
My husband was disinherited for marrying me
Eviction from their aristocratic estate and a bitter feud led the Earl and Countess of Yarmouth to set up a new life
The Earl & Countess of Yarmouth, pictured with Ragley Hall in the background
Credit: Andrew Crowley
If you read a story about a successful, independent woman marrying into an idiosyncratic, aristocratic British family and finding herself on the receiving end of unwelcome hostility, you might think it sounds familiar.
When Kelsey Seymour, Countess of Yarmouth, married her husband, William, Earl of Yarmouth, son and heir to the Marquess of Hertford and the bucolic 6,000-acre Ragley Hall estate in Warwickshire, in June 2018, she already knew any hopes she may have had of being embraced into the fold were never going to be realised.