Harriette Wilson (Rochfort)

Harriett Wilson (Dubochet)

Father was a Swiss Clock Maker in Mayfair, London of Swiss Nationality who took the name Wilson in 1801. Her parents had 15 children.

Lovers included:

• William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven commenced relations at age 15
• Prince of Wales later George IV (promised her £20,000 and did not pay)
• Lord Chancellor
• Four future Prime Ministers of England (including Charles James Fox, Palmerston, Wellington)
• Settled down with [George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll] for a time, until he left to live in Scotland. Known as the Marquis of Lorne before he became Duke, he later moved on to her sister Amy, who bore him a son
• Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
• Deeply loved Lord John Ponsonby but he became intrigued by her 14 year old sister Sophia
• She underwent a non-legally-binding Fleet prison marriage to Rochfort who was living under the prison rules for debt at the time. The couple later separated.

Harriette was a writer:
See: The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King Review

• Memoirs
• Paris Lions & London Tigers
• Clara Gazul

REF :

• Wiki Pedia
• Jaz Babies

Read the "scathing" Obituary printed about her in South Australia, Australia