He commanded Lichfield's Regiment, an infantry regiment in the English Army until his dismissal for Jacobite sympathies following the Glorious Revolution. Nearly three years later, having reached puberty, the thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds were married on 6 February 1677.įrom 1687 to 1689, Lichfield served as Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. She was contracted at the age of nine to Lee, who was sixteen months older than his bride-to-be.
Sweet-natured and strikingly beautiful, Charlotte was adored by her father the king. The Lady Charlotte Fitzroy was the fourth of six children born to the king's mistress, the Duchess of Cleveland. Lee was created Earl of Lichfield in 1674 at the age of eleven, a result of his betrothal to the daughter of King Charles II. King Charles II contracted his daughter, Charlotte Lee (pictured), to Edward Lee when she was ten and he was eleven, and the two married at the ages of thirteen and fourteen in 1677 In his youth, he was considered to be kind, charming, strong, intelligent as well as arrogant because of his position in the peerage. His father's half-brother was the libertine-poet the Earl of Rochester His great grandfather, Henry Lee, was the cousin and heir of Henry Lee of Ditchley. His subsidiary titles were Viscount Quarendon and Baron Spelsbury.Įdward Lee was the son of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet of Quarendon and his wife Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe, who was later third wife of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey. He was a staunch Tory and followed James II to Rochester, Kent after the king's escape from Whitehall in December 1688. They had a large family Lady Lichfield bore him 18 children.
Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield (4 February 1663 – 14 July 1716) was an English peer, the son of a baronet, who at 14 years of age married one of the illegitimate daughters of King Charles II, Charlotte Lee, prior to which he was made Earl of Lichfield.
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