Baron Bernstein, who married Maria's Aunt Beatrix, Bishop Tusher's widow, was also a German, a Hanoverian nobleman, and relative of the first Lady Castlewood.

If my Lady Maria was born under George I., and his Majesty George II.

had been thirty years on the throne, how could she be seven-and-twenty, as she told Harry Warrington she was?
"I am old, child," she used to say.

She used to call Harry "child" when they were alone.

"I am a hundred years old.