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234:. Talks of finding a husband for Harriet began, and she was given lessons on etiquette from a dancing master. Viscountess Granville worried that her charge's marriage prospects would face difficulties, namely due to her mysterious status as a ward and lack of a dowry. The girl had many positive qualities, however; the historian Janet Gleeson describes Harriet as "well-mannered and physically attractive to the opposite sex."
199:. To her lasting sorrow, social constraints prevented her from openly acknowledging the child. Illegitimate children were increasingly disapproved of in English society; worrying about her daughter's future, Lady Bessborough arranged for her to be raised by a foster mother. Another illegitimate sibling, George Arundel Stewart, was born two years later in similar circumstances.
269:, could usually be depended on to help with their debts, to Harriet's embarrassment. In one letter, she wrote to him, "I can never be sufficiently grateful to you for the kindness you have again shown me and for the generosity with which you have again relieved our great difficulties. I feel much shame at our having brought these difficulties upon ourselves again."
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family was about to disembark from
Ramsgate, George Arundel Stewart would wrap his coat to around his siblings and carry his siblings along the pier to the inn. George Arundel Stewart became his father’s private secretary. They were fond of each other and travel together for six months in Spain in 1847. George Arundel Stewart died in 1875.
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Arundel Stewart's life remains more mysterious. George Arundel Stewart travelled a lot and would bring gifts, Indian turbans, shawls, fans, and a chess set, from Asia and India. George Arundel Stewart was personable and sociable. Yet, he never married, and his half-siblings adore him. When the
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Countess sought to be involved in her daughter's life, serving as a sort of godmother to the child. Lady Bessborough wrote frequently to her, though most of these letters were later
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of the Duke's arms on his death survives; unusually, for a Duke, his wife is shown as having no right to inherit her own coat of arms (because of her illegitimate birth) and yet this is not glossed over by omitting the place for her arms on the hatchment. Instead, the hatchment shows decorative
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Harriet’s debt, George Arundel Stewart's debt was at times about £800. In times like this, Harriet would turn to her brother for help, and George Arundel Stewart would report this matter to their father, who would step in to help Harriet out. Her father and guardian, now 1st
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