Adeline Horsey Recollections. In the autumn of 1844 we went to Bretby [Map], the seat of the Earl of Chesterfield (age 38), where we spent a most enjoyable time. There was a large house-party, among many others the [her husband] Duke (age 44) and Duchess (age 26) of Montrose, Mr. (age 37) and Lady Sophia des Voeux, Lord Alvanley (age 54), and the Count de Nieukerke, who was the recognised lover of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte (age 23). M. de Nieukerke was a very charming man, and he was much struck by my singing, and used to compare me with George Sand's heroine - Consuelo - for I was a very pretty girl with a slight, but fine figure, and long hair that fell in curls below my knees.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. George Bruce, the Duchess's nephew, was a source of great annoyance to her, "Hullo, Auntie Craw!" he used to call out when he saw her on the course. George was known as "The Duffer", but duffer or no, he could say spiteful things which were very much to the point. He always warned me to be very careful of his mother, [her sister] Lady Ernest Bruce, whom he generally referred to as "Bellona, the goddess of war and discord". They were always quarrelling, and he disliked her intensely.

George Bruce@@ married Lady Evelyn Craven. He afterwards went to Corsica for his health, and he died at Ajaccio in 1868. He was strikingly like Napoleon Bonaparte, and wherever he went in the island the people idolised him on account of his resemblance to the great Emperor.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. Caroline, Duchess of Montrose, was a very well-known figure at Newmarket, Suffolk, but she was highly unpopular, and was once mobbed on the course for having Mr. Crawfurd's horse pulled as there was not enough money on it! She was very much in love with Mr. Crawfurd, whom she afterwards married.

Crawfurd owned a horse called "Corrie Roy", and as the Duchess was nicknamed "Carrie Red", these names were the subject of some amusing doggerel written by Lord Winchilsea ... "Corrie Roy and Carry Red, One for the course, the other for bed, Is not Craw a lucky boy, To have Carry Red and Corrie Roy? ".