Lady Caroline Capel (1773–1847)

Lady Caroline Capel, née Paget, was the daughter of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and his wife Jane Champagne (Lady Uxbridge). In 1792 she married the Hon. John Thomas Capel, and the couple had 10 children. Lady Caroline and her family were staying in Brussels before, during, and after the Battle of Waterloo. She was heavily pregnant at that time and had a brother who was one of Lord Wellington’s commanders. Her historic letters to and from her mother Lady Uxbridge, her daughter Maria, marquise d’Espinassy, and others, were edited and published by her brother's descendant, George, 7th Marquess of Anglesey, in 1955 as "The Capel Letters:  Being the correspondence of Lady Caroline Capel and Her Daughters with the Dowager Countess of Uxbridge from Brussels and Switzerland, 1814–1817." There's a well-known painting of Lady Caroline holding her daughter Harriet by John Hoppner.