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Anne Luttrell
b. 1743    
d.  28 Dec 1808 at Trieste, Italy (buried there)

daughter of 
Simon Luttrell, of Luttrellstown, 
Baron Irnham & 1st Earl of Carhampton
and
Judith Maria Lawes 
(sole heiress of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica)

Married (1st) Christopher Horton of Catton Hall 
Married (2nd) Henry, Duke of Cumberland, 
brother to King George III of England

"The Duke's marriage to the commoner Lady Anne Horton (or Houghton) (1743-1808) on October 2, 1771 was the catalyst for the Royal Marriages Act 1772, which forbids any descendant of George II to marry without the monarch's permission. There were no children from this marriage. Lady Anne, though from a good family -- she was a daughter of Simon Luttrell, Earl of Carhampton, and the widow of Christopher Horton of Catton Hall -- seems to have been rather loose with her favors, given one wag's comment that she was "the Duke of Grafton's Mrs Houghton, the Duke of Dorset's Mrs Houghton, everyone's Mrs Houghton."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Frederick,_Duke_of_Cumberland  Anne Luttrell Houghton, Duchess of Cumberland
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"Anne, Mrs. Horton, will be for ever famous, not only for her beauty, which was unsurpassed in a day when beauty was at its highest standard, but for her marriage with the Duke of Cumberland, which brought about all the stir and commotion of the Royal Marnage Act.

She had married when a mere girl Christopher Horton, a sporting squire, of whom little is known save that he was owner of Catton Park, Derbyshire. After a few years he died, leaving his widow a moderate provision, not a quarter sufficient to satisfy her extravagant tastes. She was 24, with bewitching eyes, which, when she pleased, she could animate to enchantment.  "Her coquetry was so active, so varied, and yet so habitual, that it was difficult not to see through it, and yet as difficult to resist it." Horace Walpole describes her as a coquette beyond measure, artful as Cleopatra and completely mistress of her passions and projects. "Indeed," he adds, "eyelashes three-quarters of a yard shorter would have served to conquer such a head as she has turned."
For all that, Horace was mightily well pleased when his niece, the beautiful Lady Waldegrave, made the conquest of the Duke of Gloucester, whose mental qualifications were much on a par with those of his brother, the Duke of Cumberland.

Mrs. Horton met the Duke, it is said, at a boarding-house, whither he had gone until the scandal of one of his numerous love affairs had blown over. He was no match for the beautiful widow, whose dancing of the minuet completely carried his slight defences, and, finding she was impervious to any proposal save orthodox marriage, he followed her to Calais, where the knot was tied hard and fast, all legal forms being duly executed, and no loophole left through which the royal captive could wriggle.

The Duchess did not gain all she expected. The Royal Marriage Act indeed could not separate her from the Duke, or take from her the title of Duchess; but these advantages (especially the first) hardly repaid her for the snubs of the Court and for the isolation of her life, this latter lasting many years, the nobility being too good courtiers to risk irritating their Majesties by paying any deference to the interloper into the royal circle.

Later, the Duchess and her husband took a fiendish method of retaliation. When the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV.) came to man's estate, the Duchess wove her toils about him so as to attain great influence over his easily governed mind: neither she nor the Duke made any secret that their object was to intimidate the party into receiving the Duchess, and the plan succeeded; although not publicly recognized, she had the entrée to the more intimate family circle.

Her triumph, however, did not last long, as much of her glory was shorn when the Duke died in 1790. From that time we get only occasional glimpses of the beautiful Duchess, who survived her husband some twenty years."

from http://indigo.ie/~kfinlay/Picturesque%20Dublin/picturesque12.htm
"Walk in Kew Garden" 
by Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of Henry, Duke of Cumberland, with the Duchess of Cumberland and Lady Elizabeth Luttrell. 1783-85. Oil on canvas. Royal Collection, UK. 
The Duchess of Cumberland, Joshua Reynolds (painting)
This painting helped to fashion the public image of Lady Anne Luttrell, a young widow who had eloped with George III’s youngest brother, Frederick Duke of Cumberland (1745-1790), in 1771.
The marriage caused such consternation that in 1772 the king passed an Act of Parliament requiring members of the royal family to obtain the sovereign’s permission to marry. Reynolds’s portrait of the duchess was exhibited at the Royal Academy the following year and could hardly represent the controversial sitter in a more regal manner.
https://waddesdon.org.uk/duchess-of-cumberland-joshua-reynolds/?srsltid=AfmBOoqSBzvZau00V9RU9XzTz-76ZKkQGVljfnT5iFDBsnv2YeuQLvJH
https://historyofparliament.com/2017/12/07/royal-marriages-act/ 

On 1 November 1771 George III had received a surprise visit from his younger brother, Henry, duke of Cumberland. A serial womanizer, Cumberland had cost his brother £13,000 the year before to satisfy costs and damages awarded against him in a case of ‘criminal conversation’ brought against him by Lord Grosvenor. Now, he had even more difficult news to impart. While they strolled together, Cumberland handed over a paper to the king explaining his recent marriage to Anne Horton, widowed daughter of the notorious libertine, Lord Irnham. The king was flabbergasted and informed his brother that it would be best for all if the new couple quit the country. On 3 November Cumberland and his new duchess duly left for France. The king subsequently let it be known that he would not receive at court anyone who waited on the Duke and Duchess after Cumberland refused a final offer of the king’s continued friendship if he would agree not to appear in public with ‘Mrs Horton’.

The king’s consternation was in part driven by the fact that the new duchess came from what was considered to be a remarkably unsuitable background. Irnham was satirized in popular prints as the ‘King of Hell’; Anne’s brother, Henry Lawes Luttrell, was the ambitious but extremely unpopular man the administration had backed against John Wilkes in the recent Middlesex election. Anne’s own reputation was hardly decorous. Yet the king’s ostensible objections were less about these and more about dynastic concerns

In the long term, though, as John Brooke has pointed out, for all his ‘what-what-ing’ the king was not fierce in enforcing his rule preventing courtiers from visiting his brothers and their wives and Cumberland’s marriage, which had been the catalyst for the brouhaha, proved remarkably successful. Duchess Anne proved ‘a good wife to the Duke of Cumberland. She kept him straight… and she did her best to prevent him making a fool of himself in politics…’ [Brooke, George III, 279]