TCP
was sent for a while to a fashionable Westminster boarding-school (which her father could not have afforded) by her godmother the Duchess of Bolton
. Her learning there would have been angled towards accomplishments...
Family and Intimate relationships
Teresia Constantia Phillips
Constantia had as godmother the dowager Duchess of Bolton
, who was an illegitimate grand-daughter of Charles II
through the once-notorious Duke of Monmouth. As a child Constantia was a member of the duchess's household...
Wealth and Poverty
Teresia Constantia Phillips
By 1717 TCP
's father found he could no longer afford to support his family, and the children were scattered among various relations and connections: Constantia went to her godmother the Duchess of Bolton
.
Stone, Lawrence. Uncertain Unions. Marriage in England, 1660-1753. Oxford University Press, 1992.