She was known as Lady Flora Hastings and was an aristocrat of both the Regency and the Early Victorian periods. Her father was the First Marquess of Hastings and her mother was the 6th Countess of Loudon. She was known to be in cahoots with John Conroy who was the probable lover of the Duchess of Kent, the mother of Queen Victoria. The Queen hated Conroy with a passion. Lady Flora was also disapproving of the Queens' adored friend and mentor, Baroness Louise Lehzen. In 1839, Lady Flora began to grow large and suffer pain. She was a young lady in her early thirties, unmarried and a Lady-in-waiting for the Duchess of Kent. She visited the Queen's doctor, but the word was out that she was pregnant and the testimony of two physicians could not hush the tongues of the Queen and the other gossipers. She died in Buckingham Palace at the age of 33 a virgin with a liver tumor. Her brother, Lord Hastings, and supposed lover, Conroy, stirred up a press campaign against the Queen and her physician who, nevertheless, was still the royal physician when the Duchess of Kent died. To retaliate against the Queen, members of Flora's family affixed postage stamps bearing the Queen's likeness, upside down.
She was known as Lady Flora Hastings and was an aristocrat of both the Regency and the Early Victorian periods. Her father was the First Marquess of Hastings and her mother was the 6th Countess of Loudon. She was known to be in cahoots with John Conroy who was the probable lover of the Duchess of Kent, the mother of Queen Victoria. The Queen hated Conroy with a passion. Lady Flora was also disapproving of the Queens' adored friend and mentor, Baroness Louise Lehzen. In 1839, Lady Flora began to grow large and suffer pain. She was a young lady in her early thirties, unmarried and a Lady-in-waiting for the Duchess of Kent. She visited the Queen's doctor, but the word was out that she was pregnant and the testimony of two physicians could not hush the tongues of the Queen and the other gossipers. She died in Buckingham Palace at the age of 33 a virgin with a liver tumor. Her brother, Lord Hastings, and supposed lover, Conroy, stirred up a press campaign against the Queen and her physician who, nevertheless, was still the royal physician when the Duchess of Kent died. To retaliate against the Queen, members of Flora's family affixed postage stamps bearing the Queen's likeness, upside down.
Inscription
Upper Stone
Lady Flora Elizabeth Hastings
Daughter of
Francis 1st Marquess of Hastings
Born 11th February 1806 died 5th July 1839
Aged 33
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"
(Rev. xiv.13)
Also
In memory of her mother
(Who survived her only six months)
Flora Countess of Loudoun,
Marchioness of Hastings
Born 2nd September 1780 died 9th Jan 1839
Aged 59
Middle Stone
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed
A refuge in times of trouble (Psalm ix. 9)
Until the day break and the shadows
Flee away
(Song of Solomon II.17. ivs)
Lower Stone
This monument was erected (1887)
In affectionate rememberance of a very near
relative
Mabel Elizabeth Hendry
Base Stone
M. Muir
Kilmarnock
Family Members
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