Henrietta Crofts Paulet, Duchess of Bolton

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...

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 .

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...