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Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon

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44: 165:. He suspected that it was her opinions that were making the Queen uncooperative in state affairs. It was alleged that she even proposed that she and Walpole could rule the country. The Queen's death was a great blow to her, and in her last years, she was afflicted with a painful tumour as well as (according to gossip) bouts of insanity. 146:, a Treasury official, at some date before August 1714. Her husband was an MP who was also employed to look after the interests of the Lord of Marlborough. In 1735 she became Lady Sundon when her husband was made first Baron Sundon of Ardagh. They had no children. 122:
1679 – 1 January 1742) was a British Lady in Waiting. She is known as the influential favourite of queen regent Caroline. She concerned Robert Walpole who suspected that she was selling her influence.
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from 1714 until 1737. She became very close to the Queen, who served as regent during the king's absence. She was mistrusted by
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She died on the first day of 1742 at her home in Cleveland Row, St James's. She was buried at Sundon Hall.
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The Duchess of Marlborough is thought to have interceded so that Charlotte Clayton became a
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who accused her of taking a bribe of a pair of earrings to help the husband of
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Carter, Philip. "Clayton , Charlotte, Lady Sundon (c.1679–1742)".
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Charlotte Clayton Sundon

Godfrey Kneller
British
William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon
Privy Council
Lewis Dyve
Bromham
William Clayton
woman of the bedchamber
Queen Caroline
Robert Walpole
Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret
Aitken, George Atherton
"Sundon, Charlotte Clayton" 
Lee, Sidney
Dictionary of National Biography
Sedgwick, Romney
"Clayton, William (1671-1752)"
The History of Parliament
ISBN
9780118800983



Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/5568
UK public library membership
"Clayton [née Dyve], Charlotte, Lady Sundon (c. 1679–1742), courtier"

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