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unusual facts about Lady Mary Coke


Lady Mary Coke

Emily Barry (née Stanhope, Countess of Barrymore, and wife of the 6th Earl) was even accused by Mary of luring away her previously faithful servant whilst she was in Paris in 1775, in order to aid an alleged assassination plot against her by Maria Theresa's daughter Marie Antoinette and her underlings.


Cock Lane ghost

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, announced that with the Duke of York, Lady Northumberland, Lady Mary Coke and Lord Hertford, he was to visit Cock Lane on 30 January.


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