Revealed: Kate Middleton's notorious forbear, the 'Unfortunate Countess', had affairs, abortions and married a fraudster. She was even kidnapped! Yet Mary Bowes wound up as a brilliant botanist and divorce law pioneer...
HER ancestors came from right across the social spectrum. But Kate Middleton had one forebear whose spirit of adventure and tempestuous love life trumped the lot of them.
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