LADY FLORA HASTINGS.
A tragic memory is all that survives of this ill fated bedchamber woman to the late Duchess of Kent. She died at Buckingham Palace so long ago as July5, 1839, when Queen Victoria had only been two. years on the throne, and little, more than four months a bride. Her apparent condition excited the attention of an exalted personage, and the breath of scandal compelled her to quit the Court, of which down to that timer she had been an ornament. She retired into obscurity to die .of a broken heart, and of dropsy, the symptons of which had been so sadly misunderstood. By this time Lady Flora Hastings would probably have passed into oblivion were it not that some people have a knack of reviving defunct memories and ghostly shades. Two female relatives or connections of the deceased lady have, just erected at Castle Donnington Church a memorial-tablet to, perpetuate her name. The Hastings family itself is now extinct, the last Marquis (who ruined himself on the race-course), having died of gambling and excess at an early age.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2645, 30 June 1877, Page 3
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182LADY FLORA HASTINGS. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2645, 30 June 1877, Page 3
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