The Promise

(I in no way own the above image I found it on the internet- I understand it to be a Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1814. Lady Bagot, Lady Fitzroy Somerset (later Lady Raglan), and Lady Burghersh (later Countess of Westmorland), all three nee Wellesley-Pole. Three nieces of the Duke of Wellington in fashionable gowns. – http://numberonelondon.net/2014/01/fashions-of-1814/)     What…