Wild romance

By Chloe Schama

Subjects: Upper class women, Bigamy, History, Travel, Women, biography, Marriage, Voyages around the world, Great britain, history, 19th century, Biography, Marriage law, great britain, Trials (Bigamy), Trials, litigation, Scandals, Social life and customs, Single women, Great britain, biography, Aristocracy (Social class)

Description: What started as a friendly conversation between Theresa Longworth and army officer William Charles Yelverton, on a steamer bound from France to England in 1852, would culminate nearly a decade later in one of the biggest public scandals the era had ever witnessed, with enormous implications for society at large.