Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre

Adeline Louisa Maria, Countess of Cardigan, Condessa de Lancastre was the second wife of the English peer James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, and later the wife of the Portuguese nobleman Dom António Manuel de Saldanha e Lancastre, 1st Count of Lancastre. After her marriage to the Earl of Cardigan in 1858, Queen Victoria refused to have her at court because Cardigan had left his first wife. She was the claimed author of scandalous memoirs, My Recollections, published in 1909, under the name Adeline Louisa Maria de Horsey Cardigan and Lancastre, though strictly speaking she was not allowed by the rules governing the British peerage to join her former and current titles together. Her book detailed events and people coupled with gossip concerning the establishment of Victorian England.