William Craven Sixth Baron Craven

The seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Berkeley was married at the church of St Martin in the Fields in Spring Gardens, London, to William Craven , who two years later, when an uncle died, became the sixth Baron...

Sixteen days after her first husband died, Lady Elizabeth Craven married her lover, the Margrave of Anspach , at Lisbon in Portugalwith great pomp, wearing white satin and diamonds.

Here her self-aggrandising aim is everywhere visible. She tends to retain both the upper hand and the moral high ground, even in the scene where she tells her first husband that she knows he has...