Banastre Tarleton

MR 's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton , an army colonel and a pitiless hero in...

As a beautiful actress MR was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway , Thomas Gainsborough , Angelica Kauffmann , Thomas Lawrence , Joshua Reynolds , and George Romney . As the prince's mistress...

In Stanzas Written between Dover and Calais, MR bade farewell to her lover Tarleton .

MR spent at least much of these years abroad: avoiding her own creditors and those of her lover Tarleton , and seeking health at spas like Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany.

Another continental journey, in 1783, was undertaken in desperate pursuit of her lover Tarleton (who had been reduced to half pay, and was fleeing to France to escape his creditors). Some catastrophe on this journey...