{"id":142464,"date":"2023-10-20T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=142464"},"modified":"2023-10-20T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:30:58","slug":"princess-dianas-great-great-grandmothers-diary-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/lifestyle\/princess-dianas-great-great-grandmothers-diary-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana&apos;s great-great-grandmother&apos;s diary sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Charming debutante&#8217;s diary of Princess Diana&#8217;s great-great-grandmother sells at auction as part of \u00a3250,000 clear-out<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour was 19-year-old society girl<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For all the latest Royal news, pictures and videos click\u00a0here\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A hand-stitched booklet, in which Princess Diana\u2019s great-great grandmother Adelaide Seymour listed the names of all her dance partners during the London season, has sold at auction for \u00a3500.<\/p>\n<p>The Victorian diary, entitled Balls &amp; My Partners by Miss AHE Seymour, which dates from 1844-1845, was one of 343 lots sold last week at Lay\u2019s Auctioneers, in Penzance,, raising more than \u00a3250,000 for renowned antiques collector Peter Hone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/15\/76331921-12640617-A_fascinating_diary_kept_by_Princess_Diana_s_great_great_grandmo-a-95_1697554324662.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A fascinating diary kept by Princess Diana &#8216;s great-great-grandmother in which she listed\u00a0 the balls she attended and the men she danced with has sold at auction for \u00a3500<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/16\/76664681-12640617-image-a-106_1697555690794.jpg\" height=\"783\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour (pictured) was a member of Victorian Britain&#8217;s social elite She was invited to countless balls, banquets and gatherings during the London Season<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/15\/76331575-12640617-And_judging_by_her_charming_aide_memoir_there_was_no_shortage_of-a-96_1697554333110.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>To judge by her &#8216;charming aide memoir&#8217;, there was no shortage of potential suitor to walt with her in the springs of 1844 and 1845<\/p>\n<p>Born on January 27, 1825, Adelaide was the daughter of the MP Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour, a hero of Waterloo and aide-to-camp to the cavalry commander Lord Uxbridge, and his first wife Elizabeth Malet Palk.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: The items once owned by Princess Diana which have come up for auction over the years<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was a direct descendant of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who was the brother of Henry III\u2019s third wife Jane Seymour, and Protector of the Realm from 1547 to 1549, during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI.<\/p>\n<p>She began the diary when she was a 19-year-old debutante, listing the names and dates of each ball she attended and her dance partners, which included Prince Edward, Lord Worcester, Lord Northland, and Lord Curzon.<\/p>\n<p>She went to 32 balls in 1844, dancing a total of 291 times, and 44 balls, four breakfasts and three teas in 1845, dancing 373 times, including 134 waltzes and 118 polkas.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018charming aide memoir\u2019 also includes her notes on each event. \u2018Dreadfully crowded &amp; could not get into the Ball Room till very late,\u2019 she wrote on one occasion. \u2018A charming ball,\u2019 she praised Duke of Devonshire&#8217;s Ball on May 17.<\/p>\n<p>It was not until 1854, a decade after she wrote the diary, that Adelaide, then 29, married Vice-Admiral Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, making her Countess Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>The couple had two children. Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer was Diana&#8217;s great grand father and the great-great grandfather of Prince William. The other child was Victoria Alexandrina.<\/p>\n<p>Mimi Connell Lay, of Lay&#8217;s Auctioneers said: \u2018I have never seen anything like it before. It is a lovely and fascinating record of all the balls she attended, the dances and danced and, of course, the partners she danced with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/15\/76663797-12640617-image-a-94_1697554315975.jpg\" height=\"822\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Princess Diana bore a striking resemblance to her great-great-grandmother (pictured during her visit to Zenica in 1990)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/15\/76331569-12640617-The_booklet_which_Adelaide_titled_Balls_and_My_Partners_1844_45_-a-97_1697554418924.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The booklet, which Adelaide titled &#8216;Balls and My Partners 1844-45&#8217; fell out of another book bought as a job lot by antiques collector Peter Hone about 40 years ago<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This was all during the &#8216;London Season&#8217; in Victorian Britain when the great and the good held swanky balls almost every night. It is like something out of Sense and Sensibility only this was real life.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Adelaide Seymour was obviously very well connected because she got invited to so many of these events. She also must have been very attractive judging by all of the distinguished men who asked her to dance.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hone, who grew up in an orphanage, trained as a pastry chef, landing his first job at British Railways, where he won a silver medal in 1957 for his Eccles cakes, Chelsea buns and Sacker-Torte.<\/p>\n<p>His interest in antiques began when he rented a shop in Camden Passage, Islington, next to Robert Carrier\u2019s famous restaurant, selling antique four-poster beds to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, author Barbara Cartland and the late Defence Minister Lord Lambton.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lord Lambton used to buy one for each of his mistresses and fly them around the world,\u2019 he quipped. \u2018The cheque would come from the House of Lords.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He went onto work for the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission before opening a garden antiques\u2019 shop at Clifton Nurseries, in London\u2019s Maida Vale, for the investment banker Jacob Rothschild, now the 4th Baron Rothschild.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was the first real garden antiques shop in the country and one of the most successful shops of its period,\u2019 he says proudly. \u2018We flew all sorts of things all over the world. It was marvellous.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/15\/76331549-12640617-For_1845_she_attended_44_balls_four_breakfasts_and_three_teas_an-a-98_1697554426295.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>For 1845 she attended 44 balls, four breakfasts and three teas and danced 373 times, including 134 waltzes and 118 polkas<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/15\/76331537-12640617-On_the_final_page_of_the_booklet_Adelaide_tallied_up_all_the_bal-a-99_1697554428736.jpg\" height=\"693\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>On the final page of the booklet, Adelaide tallied up all the balls she went to. For 1844 she went to 32 balls and danced 291 times<\/p>\n<p>Seven years ago, he auctioned some of his collection at Christie\u2019s, pocketing \u00a31.2 million and buying himself a bolthole in Cornwall \u2013 it took two cranes a total of five days to remove the 143 artefacts.<\/p>\n<p>Last night Mr Hone, 82, who lives with his Parson Russell Terrier Bude, in London\u2019s Maida Vale, said: \u2018I\u2019m absolutely elated. I\u2019m sitting here overjoyed. It\u2019s been the highlight of my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The viewings were magnificent. More than 1,000 people came to viewings at this little flat and now people are coming to collect everything. They\u2019ve all gone to new lovers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m absolutely exhausted. This is the time to slow down and reap the reward. You have to slow down sometime in life. It\u2019s no use selling once you\u2019re dead.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12640617\/Debutantes-diary-Princess-Diana-sells-auction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charming debutante&#8217;s diary of Princess Diana&#8217;s great-great-grandmother sells at auction as part of \u00a3250,000 clear-out Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour was 19-year-old society girl For all the latest Royal news, pictures and videos click\u00a0here\u00a0 A hand-stitched booklet, in which Princess Diana\u2019s great-great grandmother Adelaide Seymour listed the names of all her dance partners during the London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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