Sensational details of the tangled love affairs, gambling debts and secret children at the heart of the British establishment are to lift the bedcovers on late-18th century aristocracy, according to the British Library, which is buying the personal papers of the influential Granville family.
The previously censored private correspondence was stored away from the Granvilles’ main political archive in sealed tin boxes at Devonshire House in London. Among the revelations is a candid letter sent in 1809 to Harriet Granville, daughter of the celebrated socialite Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Written by her aunt, who was also called Harriet, it informs the younger woman that her dashing new husband is the aunt’s former lover and father of her two illegitmate children.
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