Cheat bet on woman outliving husband

Usage examples of dowager.

The Dowager, with a magnificent disregard for the coachman and the footman, perched on the box-seat in front of her, knew no such reticence, and discoursed with great freedom on the birth of an heir to the barony, animadverting with embarrassing candour, and all the contempt of a matriarch who had brought half-a-dozen children into the world without fuss or complications, on sickly young women who fancied themselves to be ill days before their time, and ended by suffering cross births and hard labours.

He was a charming Scotsman who was, the Grand Duchess was informed, a great friend of Lord Bute who in his turn was a close friend of the King and the Princess Dowager of England.

Lord Bute and the Princess Dowager agreed that if they were going to maintain their hold on the King he must marry a docile German princess preferably one who spoke no English.

Queen should not give herself airs, and that,she must be made to understand that the Princess Dowager and her dear friend Lord Bute were the two who had guided His Majesty before his marriage and they intended to go on doing so.

The Great Commoner The Dowager Princess Augusta had been right when the thought had occurred to her that Lord Bute was more interested in the King than in herself.

But Bute was an ambitious man and his peculiar relations with the Princess Dowager but perhaps one should not say peculiar at all, for they were, alas for the morality of the country, all too common had doubtless given him the notion that he could lead the King whither he, Bute, desired him to go.

The Princess Dowager, extremely anxious as to what had happened to Lord Bute, for she had heard rumours of his ride through the City, was very angry.

This was due to the cruelty of the Princess Dowager and Lord Bute and this time the King could not be exonerated.

The wranglings in his Parliament, the estrangements from Bute and consequently his mother, although the Princess Dowager did her best to keep a firm hold on him, made it impossible for him to turn to anyone for help.

The Princess Dowager told Lord Bute when he came to her quietly in a closed carriage that she was anxious about George, who was behaving strangely.

When he left the Princess Dowager Lord Bute called on Miss Vansittart, a young lady of good family who had been extremely pretty and still was, although she was no longer young.

Princess Dowager and Lord Bute had sought to keep her away from him a foretaste of what her life would be like if ever she lost him.

This was Elizabeth Chudleigh, the sparkling vivacious maid-of-honour who had befriended George when Prince of Wales, who had learned the secret of Hannah Light foot, who had used it to blackmail the Princess Dowager and Lord Bute and now faced a charge of bigamy.

The presence of the Dowager Countess of Cawle also attracted attention and whispers.

Then, again, Garry had the day-to-day backing of his grandmother, Centaine Courtney-Malcomess, the founder and dowager empress of the empire.