Excerpt from Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope: A New Light on Her Life and Love Affairs In the second place, the Duchess of Cleveland never attempted to solve the question of the possibility of Lady Hester's marriage or love afiair with an Arab sheik, a. Matter which Lady Hester refused to discuss Openly to the close of her life. I can find no documentary references to this marriage, and it is impossible to make a definite state ment upon merely hearsay evidence. The report has reached me, however, from so many more or less ...
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Excerpt from Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope: A New Light on Her Life and Love Affairs In the second place, the Duchess of Cleveland never attempted to solve the question of the possibility of Lady Hester's marriage or love afiair with an Arab sheik, a. Matter which Lady Hester refused to discuss Openly to the close of her life. I can find no documentary references to this marriage, and it is impossible to make a definite state ment upon merely hearsay evidence. The report has reached me, however, from so many more or less reliable sources, that it is impossible to ignore it altogether. I have talked with several people who remember friends in the East who had seen and spoken to Lady Hester's husband, but no name has been divulged. Lady Burton, when writing of the Hon. Jane Digby (lady Ellenborough) in her Memoirs, said she was worthy to be Lady Hester's successor. Jane Digby married a sheik by Mahometan rites, or, as Miss Stisted crudely puts it, in her Life of Sir Richard Burton, she capped her wild career by marrying a camel driver. There may be something in the suggestion that confusion has arisen between the stories of these two Englishwomen who found romance in the desert. Lady Hester was too proud to marry any Arab but the highest in rank, so that the choice Of possible persons is not a large one, and in time the solution to this - probably the last - important unsolved problem of her life may come to light. Consider ing for a moment the possibility of a foundation of fact for these persistent rumours, it seems probable that the alliance with an Arab sheik must have taken place about 1820, at the time of Meryon's second visit. His mention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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