Maria Anne Fitzherbert
Maria Anne Fitzherbert
(1756 -1837 ) Catholic wife of George IV of England ; died Brighton, England. The daughter of Walter Smythe of Brambridge, Hampshire, and the widow of Edward Weld, and of Thomas Fitzherbert, she married George, Prince of Wales, 1785 . She separated from him during his union with Caroline of Brunswick, and then after a nine years’ reconciliation, left him permanently.