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3 unusual facts about Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon


James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge

Frances Aylesbury

William Aylesbury

On the fall of Charles I, Aylesbury sought refuge with his father, first at Amsterdam, and afterwards at Antwerp; and he took under his protection his sister, Lady Hyde.

His sister Frances married Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Lord Clarendon.


Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon

She is portrayed in a sympathetic light in The Piccadilly Plot, the seventh of the Thomas Chaloner mystery novels by Susanna Gregory.

Another tribute to her character came from the diplomat Henry Coventry, who was then engaged in the peace negotiations at Breda, and wrote that the news of Frances's serious illness made him "very unfit for the business".


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