When she and her husband went to Hanover, the King, as she mentioned in one of her letters to Lady Bristol, "has had the goodness to appoint us a lodging in one part of the Palace, without which we should be very ill accommodated; for the vast number of English crowds the town so much, it is very good luck to be able to get one sorry room in a miserable tavern.

I dined to-day with the Portuguese ambassador, who thinks himself very happy to have two wretched parlours in an inn." Lady Mary was, indeed, in high favour at the Courts of Hanover and St.
James's.

"Mr.Wortley and his lady are here," the British Minister at Hanover, John Clavering, wrote in December, 1716, to Lady Cowper.

"They were so very impatient to see his Majesty that they travelled night and day from Vienna here.

Her Ladyship is mighty gay and airy, and occasions a great deal of discourse.