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 | | There were two Lady Jersey's during the Regency, Lady Sarah, who acted as a Lady Patroness, and her notorious mother in law, Lady Frances, who had no connection with the Rooms. |
 | | However, Lady Sarah Jersey, the Lady Patroness who introduced the Quadrille to Almack's Assembly Rooms and who is "Zenobia" in Disraeli's "Endymion," was the daughter of the 10th Earl of Westmorland, who eloped with her mother, a member of the Child's banking family, thus causing a scandal. |
 | | He succeeded to the title in 1805 and until her death in 1867, Lady Jersey, who lived in Berkeley Square, was the undisputed Queen of London Society, being called, in fact, "Queen Sarah." Sir William Fraser described her thusly, "Lady Jersey was never a beauty. |
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