The doomed and scandalous marriage from the British Royal Family that you must know
News24xx.com - Royal family in the UK have one black history as quoted from Dailymail. More than 200 years ago, a red-headed royal prince fell in love with a dark-haired older woman.
At that time, the Duchess of Sussex was pregnant when she stood in front of the altar. And she was in love with her cousin. She was Lady Augusta Murray, daughter of the Earl of Dunmore and she was in love with Prince Augustus Frederick, sixth son of King George III and also with her cousin, Lord Archibald Hamilton.
Prince Augustus, born at Buckingham Palace, suffered as a child from asthma and was sent abroad at the age of 13.
By the age of 19, he was living in Italy and then he met Lady Augusta.
Augusta was five years older and she was in love with her cousin, Lord Archibald Hamilton. Lady Augusta had fled Britain in order to have Archibald's secret love-child. Then, in Italy, Augusta was introduced to Augustus.
Augusta knew her relationship would cause trouble, indeed she cautioned against the marriage, but she could not resist becoming a member of the Royal Family. And they thinking to held a wedding in Italy, but the British royals were never to recognise her.
They'd known each other only a matter of weeks when he proposed marriage: he was now 20, she 25. They were married secretly at Rome's Hotel Sarmiento by a rogue Anglican cleric in what was later claimed to be an illegal ceremony.
Because, it had been only 20 years since the passing of the 1772 Royal Marriages Act, which forbade royal princes to marry without the consent of the monarch.
Then, the couple travelled back to Britain and, fearing their Italian marriage would be repudiated by the authorities. At that time, she was pregnant.
Unlike Harry and Meghan's lavish wedding, watched by two billion people worldwide, the ceremony was carried out in complete secrecy. Their names announced as Augustus Frederick and Augusta Murray, in the desperate hope of avoiding publicity.
As she walked up the aisle in St George's Church, Hanover Square, on December 5, 1793, Augusta was pregnant and when the King heard of it, he angrily declared both marriages illegal and void.
And her son, a boy, arrived just one month later.
Such was the disgrace, the King ordered Augustus out of the country. As he meekly went back to live in Italy, the Duchess, meanwhile, was told to stay in Britain with the child.
Before long the Duke had fallen in love again and was living with an opera singer, Giuseppina Grassi, in Naples. That relationship lasted for two years, but they not married.
Meantime the Duchess was behaving no better, and had started seeing her cousin from her husband, Lord Archibald. Since she was prevented by the King from joining the Duke in Italy, she was not to see him again for five years.
At that time, she and Augustus had been married for seven years, even though the royal couple had spent less than a year together as man and wife.
Soon after his return, Augustus was pregnant their second child, and though initially he accepted it as his own, he discovered a bundle of letters which convinced him the child was not his.
The couple's brief reunion lasted just six months, then the Duke left for Portugal, and never to see Augusta, whom he left virtually penniless.
He was left Duke of Sussex in 1801 (they had married in 1793).
Then, the Duchess chased her husband to Lisbon trying to get money out of him and managed to got a £4,000 for a year.
In return, to stop her from calling herself the Duchess of Sussex she would change her name by special royal licence became Lady Augusta de Ameland.
Her children, whether fathered by the prince or not, would not be accorded royal status and known by the surname of d'Este.
Meanwhile, the Duke was busy fathering his an illegitimate child with a woman who lived close to Windsor Castle.
This baby, Lucy Beaufoy, grew up to be the great-grandmother of Dame Anna Neagle, popular British film actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Augusta was banished to Ramsgate in Kent, where she lived in obscurity until a scandal erupted over secret payments to her from royal funds, uncovered by a famous piece of investigative journalism in 1820 titled The Black Book, Or Corruption Unmasked, by author John Wade.
Her husband had to bring a legal action to stop her using the royal coat of arms, and another to stop her children calling themselves 'Prince' and 'Princess'.
In the small town of Ramsgate, she was still known as the Duchess of Sussex. When she died at the age of 69, a thoroughfare in the town was named Sussex Street in her honour.
Her lover, Lord Archibald never married.
As for the Duke, he waited for Augusta's death before marrying again, at the age of 58, to his long-time mistress, Lady Cecilia Buggin.
The Duke was so mortified by the treatment meted out to him by his own family that he refused, on his death, to be interred at Windsor — a place from which his wife would be excluded — and preferred instead to be buried in the public cemetery in Kensal Green,
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