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6 unusual facts about Jane Digby


Baron Digby

Jane Digby was the sister of the 9th Baron Digby while Hon.

H. R. P. Dickson

There his mother's milk failed and Shaikh Mijwal al Mazrab, the husband of Lady Jane Digby, provided the young child with a wet nurse from the 'Anizah tribe.

Jane Digby

After her death her house was let and the family of the young H. R. P. Dickson rented it.

She then moved on to Munich and became the lover of Ludwig I of Bavaria.

She had four husbands and many lovers, including King Ludwig I of Bavaria, his son King Otto of Greece, statesman Felix Schwarzenberg, and an Albanian brigand general (the Bulgarian Hadji Christo).

Though she was not legally divorced from Venningen until 1842, Jane converted to the Greek Orthodox faith and married Theotokis in Marseille in 1841.



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