Harriet Mordaunt

Harriet Sarah, Lady Mordaunt (7 February 1848 – 9 May 1906), formerly Harriet Moncreiffe, was the Scottish wife of an English baronet and Member of Parliament, Sir Charles Mordaunt. She was the respondent in a sensational divorce case in which the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) was embroiled and, after a counter-petition led to a finding of mental disorder, spent the remaining thirty-six years of her life initially in several privately rented houses, and then in various private lunatic asylums, finally ending her days in Sutton, Surrey.

Lady Mordaunt (as she is referred to throughout this article) was born Harriet Sarah Moncreiffe. Her parents were Sir Thomas Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 7th Baronet (1822–1879) of Moncreiffe House,Perthshire, Scotland, and his wife, Lady Louisa Hay-Drummond (died 1898), eldest daughter of The 11th Earl of Kinnoull. They had sixteen children, including eight "beautiful" daughters who were, in due course, mostly "extremely well married". Lady Mordaunt was their fourth child (and fourth daughter). Her sister Georgina (the Moncreiffes' third daughter, known to the family as Georgy) became Countess of Dudley, her husband having been dubbed "frizzle wig" by Lady Mordaunt. In 1920 Margot Asquith recalled that "groups of beauties like the Moncrieffes [sic] ... were to be seen in the salons of the [eighteen] 'eighties. There is nothing at all like this in London today"

Sir Thomas Moncreiffe served in the Grenadier Guards and become a captain in the Atholl Highlanders. He was captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews.

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