W hen Jane Wellesley was growing up, she was never allowed to meet her paternal grandmother. Dorothy (Dottie) Wellesley, 7th Duchess of Wellington, was rarely spoken about, even by her own son ...

Jane Wellesley may be the first person to take Dorothy Wellesley seriously. “My instinct,” she writes in Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit: A Life of Dorothy Wellesley, “is to defend her” – a ...