![]() ![]() The Duchess of Devonshire was a celebrated beauty and a socialite who gathered around her a large circle of literary and political figures-a salon. "THE DEVONSHIRE, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes", by Thomas Rowlandson, 1784 The painting was painted just before Georgiana's marriage to the Duke of Devonshire ![]() With her siblings, Henrietta and George, by Angelica Kauffmann, c. Among the descendants of her family are the present Duke of Devonshire (via her great great grand neice) Diana, Princess of Wales, and Sarah, Duchess of York (via her illegitimate daughter Eliza Courtney). Her father, the 1st Earl Spencer, was a great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. ![]() Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), formerly Lady Georgiana Spencer, was the first wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. ![]()
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