![]() Perhaps ‘she was taken in by his charming and easy manners’, or perhaps ‘his military bearing evoked memories of her cherished father’. Borman gives us several possible reasons for this precipitate marriage. She went to live with the family (what happened to her younger siblings at this point is not explained) and then, ‘unaccountably’, according to Lord Chesterfield, she married Charles Howard, the Earl’s youngest son. Before long Henrietta found herself responsible for her remaining siblings – there had been a few more deaths along the way – and she sought help from some maternal relatives, the Howards, the head of the household being the Fifth Earl of Suffolk. Her father, Sir Henry Hobart, was killed in a duel when she was only nine years old, and her mother died a few years later. Henrietta Howard was born Henrietta Hobart on, the ‘middle’ child, according to Tracy Borman, of eight. ![]()
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