Full Name Charlotte Dyve Role Baroness Sundon Name Charlotte Baroness | Occupation Courtier Nationality British Died January 1, 1742 | |
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Spouse William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon | ||
Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon (11 December c.1679 – 1 January 1742) was a British Lady in Waiting.
Life
Charlotte Dyce was a woman of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline from 1714 until 1737. She was the granddaughter of Sir Lewis Dyve of Bromham in Bedfordshire. She married William Clayton, a Treasury official, at some date before 1715. In 1735 she became Lady Sundon when her husband was made first Baron Sundon. She enjoyed a lot of influence with the Queen and she was mistrusted by Robert Walpole who suspected that it was her opinions that were making the Queen uncooperative. It was alleged that she even proposed that she and Walpole could rule the country.
References
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