Episode 340 – The Countess Duchess

In which Elizabeth will face a trial of her peers on a charge of bigamy. Bigamy is very naughty for a girl.

Elizabeth Pierrepont (née Chudleigh), Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull, who was convicted of bigamy in 1776, being already married to Augustus Hervey, later 3rd Earl of Bristol, when she married Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. Apparently coarse and licentious, she was ridiculed by the comedian Samuel Foote in a play.

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