Laura Keppel Fitzroy

(b. March 14, 1765, England – d. June 29, 1798, Dawlish, Devon, England )

Gender: F

Laura Keppel (1765-1798), daughter of the Rt. Rev Hon. Frederick Keppel, son of the 2nd Earl of Albemarle, who was Bishop of Exeter, married George Ferdinand FitzRoy (1761-1810), 2nd Baron Southampton, on 2 July 1784, when she was nineteen and he was twenty-three. George’s father, Lord Southampton, had not been consulted about the match, but accepted it in retrospect. They had two daughters, and she died at the age of thirty-three. She was Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales.

Also known as:

Laura Fitzroy (née Keppel)

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