Lady Charles Bentinck, born Anne Wellesley, and previously known as Lady Abdy, was a British aristocrat and a great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth World War II
Background
Bentinck was a daughter of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and his mistress, Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland, an actress at the Palais Royal for many years. Her paternal grandparents were Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and Anne Hill, daughter of Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon.
Career
Her paternal uncles included Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington. And Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley.
Her parents were married six years after her birth, on 29 March 1794, at which point she was legitimized.
