1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Missed in History Class from how 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. Okay, so, 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: if you listen to the first episode of this two parter, 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: you probably recall that the whole thing was downright soap 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: opera esque in many ways, and it is going to 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: continue in a similar vein. So if you are listening 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: with younger history buffs, be aware that there is a 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: lot of talk of marital infidelity and children out of wedlock, 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: and just a lot of drama in terms of relationships, 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: and a lot of this really becomes the tale of 12 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: Lady Anne Blunt's husband, because that really puts into pretty 13 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: sharp focus the unhappy nature of her marriage and what 14 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: she was enduring while simultaneously showing horses and running a 15 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: successful horse breeding program and making a name for herself 16 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 1: which he often took credit for. Um So we do 17 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: highly wreck man listening to the first part of this 18 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: before you jump into this one, because we're kind of 19 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: hopping in right where we left off. But for a 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: very quick recap, we ended the last episode at something 21 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: of a turning point in Lady Anne's life at the 22 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: end of the eighteen seventies, so at that point she 23 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 1: was over forty uh, an age her mother told her 24 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: she was never going to reach, so she felt this 25 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: weird sense of liberation about it. She had also converted 26 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: to Catholicism, something that her grandmother, Lady Byron, would never 27 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: have approved of, so it also marks a break in 28 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: her mentality in terms of doing what others thought of 29 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: her um and she had found what she felt was 30 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: her calling as she traveled the Arabian Desert seeking out 31 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: horses to combine with English thoroughbreds in her breeding program. 32 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: And Ann's husband, Wilfred Blunt, after a very brief period 33 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: in which he attempted to stop his adulterous habits, had 34 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: gone right back to philandering. But though the marriage had problems, 35 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: Anne and Wilfred's partnership breeding horses at crabb At Farm 36 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: as part of their credit stud program remained constant, and 37 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: later the couple's daughter Judas, wrote that Anne was really 38 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: the one with all of the knowledge about this breeding 39 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: program and that she was basically succeeding despite her husband 40 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: Wilfred's quote reckless disregard when it came to keeping and 41 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: breeding horses. Yet Wilfrid is the one with the historical marker. 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: Oh yes, he got credit for everything, and he was 43 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: much more famous than his wife in their time and 44 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: really even now. But as historians have examined their lives, 45 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: it becomes really clear that she was doing all the 46 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: heavy lifting and he was kind of show voting. So 47 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: in late eighteen eighty the Blunts traveled to Cairo. From 48 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: there they made their way first to the Red Seat 49 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: coast and then back to Cairo in the following January. 50 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: From there they went into Syria. They went back to 51 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,839 Speaker 1: England after this with dozens of new horses, but at 52 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: one point Anne considered abandoning this work altogether. She was 53 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: really exhausted, both physically and mentally from all the travel 54 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: and from assess thing and arranging the purchase of so 55 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: many animals. Yeah, we mentioned in the last episode that like, 56 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: while she was taking care of these things and really 57 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: keeping incredible records of all of the horses they had seen, 58 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: like Wilfred was doing some foolish things like I'm gonna 59 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: go hunt pigs and causing all kinds of problems. But 60 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: as additional journeys into Egypt and Syria were scheduled. Anne 61 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: felt more and more that where she wanted to be 62 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: for a while at least was at the crabbit stud 63 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: with their horses. She was increasingly unhappy at being away 64 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: from them and from the program, but she went on 65 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: these trips, although she noted in her diary that during 66 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: this time she often felt ill while she was traveling. 67 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: In early two the Blunts purchased a thirty seven acre 68 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: property outside of Cairo to open a stable there, and 69 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: up until this point they found themselves increasingly entangled in 70 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: the politics that we're leading up to the Anglo Egyptian War. 71 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: Wilfrid and Anne often found themselves being just thrust into 72 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: positions where they were seen as mediators among English, Ish, 73 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: French and Egyptian diplomats and leaders. The Blunts managed to 74 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: weather all of this, largely because they were wealthy and 75 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: well connected, but they went back to England in March 76 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: of that year, so as a situation became more heated. Yeah. 77 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: As you'll recall, before he got married to Anne, Wilfred 78 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 1: had worked for the Foreign Service, so it was not 79 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: completely bizarre that they returned to on occasion to help 80 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: out in these discussions. But it wasn't something he was 81 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: really necessarily super prepared for either. But once they got 82 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: back to England, Wilfred continued to work on his diplomatic efforts, 83 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: so much so that he decided that he needed to 84 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: move out of the house and to an apartment in 85 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: London so that he would not be interrupted by Anne 86 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: or their daughter Judith. And while he had been seen 87 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: by dignitaries in Egypt as a man of influence and 88 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: import in England, back home, the staff at the Foreign 89 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: Office kind of thought he was just meddling in diplomatic affairs, 90 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: and to some he was even regarded with suspicion, like 91 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: they were like why are you coming here and trying 92 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: to push this again into like are you a spy 93 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: of some sort. Similarly, he came to be seen eventually 94 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: as a political pot stir in Egypt as things started 95 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: to settle down, so much so that he was eventually 96 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: banned from the country for three years, and Anne, who 97 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: had also supported the cause of Egyptian nationalists, went back 98 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: to work with the Horses. While that ongoing conflict and 99 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: violence was playing out in Egypt, Lady Anne had continued 100 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: to be loyal to Wilfrid in spite of his behavior, 101 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: but he finally pushed things too far, and it was 102 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 1: far enough that Anne said something about it. He had 103 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: been having an affair with Lady Augusta Gregory, that two 104 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: of them had met in Egypt and they bonded over 105 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: their shared dismay over the way that the British Empire 106 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: was handling things in Egypt. For context, Lady Gregory, who 107 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: would make a great show topic one day, founded the 108 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: Irish Literary Theater and the Abbey Theater. Later in her life. 109 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: She did that with William Butler, Yates and Edward Martin. Yeah, 110 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 1: Lady Anne and Wilfrid Blunt, their lives bump up against 111 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: all kinds of famous figures in England at the time. 112 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: Like they knew Oscar Wilde, they were friends with um 113 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: Gertrude Bell, like there are a lot of people that interact. 114 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: But because he had an affair with Lady Gregory, I 115 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: wanted to make sure we gave some clarification on who 116 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: she was. And Anne had been supportive and tolerant of 117 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: Wilfred's work as essentially a volunteer statesman. At this point, 118 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: she had made space for him to do so and 119 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: had left him to his own devices, so he was 120 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: paying no attention to her their daughter. But she was like, 121 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: it's okay, you're working. But in return for all of 122 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: this kindness and making these allowances, Wilfred openly declared his 123 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: love for another woman, Lady Gregory. And though Wilfred decided 124 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: to dial back the relationship with Lady Gregory in order 125 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: to concentrate on his work, after he did, he behaved 126 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 1: almost as though he had been jilted himself. His temper 127 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: was short, he sulked, He basically was insufferable, and Anne 128 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: had turned a blind eye to his philanderings through out 129 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: their marriage. But he claimed to love this woman, which 130 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: to her was a different matter, and it wounded her 131 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: very deeply. This was when Lady Anne really reached the 132 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: point that enough was enough, and to make that clear, 133 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: on auguste she wrote a lengthy letter to her husband. 134 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: She detailed how much pain that he had caused her 135 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: and how she had realized that what she thought she 136 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: had was all a lie. She wrote quote it is 137 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: too late I accept the truth, preferring it to a 138 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: false dream. She wrote all of her feelings out on 139 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: two pages of Fool's cap, and that's a paper size 140 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: that's similar to a legal pad. She handed this letter 141 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: over to Wilfred, but she didn't speak to him on 142 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: the matter again, and she didn't change her behavior with 143 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: him later on, as Wilfred continued his various affairs, including 144 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: with Lady Gregory, and wrote quote, I don't agree to 145 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: Lady g having all the rose leaves while the thorns 146 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: are kept for me. Yeah, it was interesting, she um. 147 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: She was not an emotionally super demonstrative person. She was 148 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: very even keel, and we even talked about in the 149 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: first part of this two parter, like when she talked 150 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: about her wedding day and wrote it down in her journal. 151 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: It was pretty dispassionate, more like a catalog of the 152 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: day's events. So it was kind of a big deal 153 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: that she had written this letter so passionately, even though 154 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: she just handed it to her husband and did not 155 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: engage in like a verbal sparring with him at that point, 156 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: that was a pretty big statement for her. It is 157 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: unclear when Wilfred Blunt wrote his reply to that letter, 158 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: Although it is not actually a direct reply to her, 159 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: it's more of a commentary on her letter, and it 160 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: seems to have happened sometime between eighteen three and eighteen 161 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: eighty six, but again, because of the way um it's 162 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: mentioned in their diaries, it's not clear when it actually happened. 163 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: But in that letter that he wrote, he confessed his infidelity, 164 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: but he also managed to take little to no responsibility 165 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: for the problems in their marriage, writing quote in the 166 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 1: long history of my vagrant heart, I have said little 167 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: of what was my conjugal life at home. This, in 168 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: spite of my many lapses, had in reality, been quite 169 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: a happy one. Though I have loved other women, I 170 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: have not for that reason been less kind to my wife, 171 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: nor has she had cause to reproach me with the 172 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 1: neglect of those duties for which matrimony was primarily ordained. 173 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: No one, in truth ever had a stronger desire for 174 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: the procreation of children, and yet we had no air. Now, However, 175 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: the day of such hopes was fairly at an end. 176 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: I was forty two and forty five, and with the 177 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: vanishing of what we have so long desired in common, 178 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: a certain estrangement had begun between us, for which I 179 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 1: do not, in my conscience think I was seriously to blame. Nevertheless, 180 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: the gradual separation was in secret making her unhappy. My 181 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 1: infidelity she had condoned as due to my poets nature, 182 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: but my inconstancy, for she so deemed it filled her 183 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: with despair. It did not con tinue thus to love her. 184 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: It was proof that I had never loved her truly. So, 185 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 1: in case you missed it, he blames her for not 186 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: having a son, and that that's the reason, of course, 187 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: once we couldn't have kids anymore. Really, of course I 188 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: wanted to see other women, even though he was seeing 189 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: them while they were trying for children. Uh, and none 190 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: of it's his fault. And she said he could cheat 191 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 1: even though she never really had. Um, I'm not Wilfred's 192 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: biggest fan. I'll be very frank about it. Well, And 193 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: in case, in case folks have forgotten from part one, 194 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: while they were having trying to have children, she had 195 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: a series of complications and miscarriages and and premature births, 196 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: and the whole thing was I mean, it was a 197 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,319 Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, So for that to be the thing 198 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: that he's sort of pinning the blame on is particularly frustrating. Yeah, 199 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: It's definitely like the writing of someone who is super 200 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: self involved and cannot see how their actions have any 201 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: uh impact on other people, or that their actions could 202 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: in any way be judged wrong. So once again, in 203 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: all of this, And found solace in her work with 204 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: horses and her ongoing lessons in Arabic language. They traveled 205 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,599 Speaker 1: again in three and eventually made their way to India 206 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,719 Speaker 1: that November. During the trip, AND's journals really reflected her 207 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: ongoing animosity toward her husband. When Wilfred was sick in Bombay, 208 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: she wrote, Wilfred begins again to look much worn and tired, 209 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: and yet he is too independent of any sympathy from 210 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 1: me to care about having it, so that I shall 211 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: no longer venture to make even the smallest advance. Yeah, 212 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 1: they kind of got in this habit where they would 213 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: travel uh in eastward during the winters and then go 214 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: back to England during the spring and summer, and so 215 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: the cycle continued over and over. But we're gonna pick 216 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 1: up with Anne and Wilfred's life once they traveled back 217 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: home after this first trip, after they had had that 218 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: sort of quiet blowout about his affair with Lady Gregory. 219 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,439 Speaker 1: But first we are going to pause and have a 220 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: little sponsor break. So later, after the couple had returned 221 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: to England and continued to feel lonely and isolated, and 222 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: she wrote about having to one day explain the enmity 223 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: of their household to their daughter Judith. But even as 224 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: the pair seemed to be emotionally completely separated, they did 225 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: stay married and and supported Wilfred as he pursued various 226 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: political positions and causes. In the eighteen seventies, he had 227 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 1: a son out of wedlock with a woman named Mrs 228 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: Georgie Sumner, and Ann's money her inheritance paid for that 229 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: boy's schooling. After the fallout from Wilfred's love of Lady 230 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: Gregory and his ongoing efforts in politics, he turned his 231 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: attention entirely to Ireland, hen he started did lobbying for 232 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: Irish home rule. He decided to travel to Ireland alone 233 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: in eighteen eighty six and wrote in his journal at 234 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: the time that he had only enemies and that no 235 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: one loved him despite his efforts to be a just 236 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: and loving man himself. Again, it's the same thing right 237 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: where he can't see how his behaviors are causing his problems. 238 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: The family, though including Judith, did all grouped back together 239 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: and they traveled to Rome for Christmas in eighteen eighty six, 240 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: and then they moved on to Egypt. From there, they 241 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: had gotten special permission that Wilfred could return, although that 242 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: permission was granted with some trepidation and with things being 243 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: made very clear that like, hey, we told you you 244 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: could not come back to this country behave yourself. Um. 245 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: So they got to spend time at their stables there 246 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: and have what seemed to actually be a pretty RESTful 247 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: stay for several months and something close to an amicable 248 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: peace between the spouses, but Blunt's involvement in Irish politics 249 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: brought more strife into the family. After they returned home 250 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: from Egypt in October seven, Wilfred led a tenant protest 251 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: outside of Galway when words circulated that the owner of 252 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: the land was planning to evict everyone. He was arrested. 253 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: He wound up spending two months in jail, which was 254 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: something that he took as a source of pride. He 255 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: claimed to be the only Englishman to take up the 256 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: cause of Ireland. Similarly to how things played out regarding 257 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: his role in Egypt, he came to be seen as 258 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: more of a rabble rouser than a true leader, and 259 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: he let that feed his ego. Once he was released 260 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: and the dust had settled, he declared the end of 261 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: his political career and turned to poetry as his primary outlet. Yeah, 262 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: he was definitely very prolific later in his life in 263 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: terms of writing, once he decided that politics were not 264 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: for him anymore. Lady Anne Wilfred and Judith, who had 265 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: reached an age where she was easier to travel with, 266 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: continued to travel frequently. They continued that cycle that I 267 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: spoke about, where they would traveled to the East in 268 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: the winters and back in the spring and summer, and Judith, 269 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: in her teenage years, started to see more and more 270 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: clearly the very, very poor marriage that her parents shared. 271 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: She actually once told Anne that she feared being treated 272 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: by a husband the way that her father treated Anne, 273 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: and that really terrified and upset, and so much so 274 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: that she wrote later in her journal that one must 275 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: try to bury such thoughts or be mortally wounded by them. 276 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: While she endured Wilfrid's ongoing womanizing and foolishness, which even 277 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: if we just listed the names of all the women 278 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: he was involved with, could fill an hour of audio. 279 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: She wasn't idle. She was, as we mentioned, just a 280 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: few moments ago. Continuing to study Arabic, and she became 281 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: fluent enough that she was able to start working on 282 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: translation projects. She published the first of her translated works, 283 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: The Stealing of the Mayor in e. This is also 284 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: sometimes seen as the celebrated Romance of the Stealing of 285 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: the Mayor, and it was originally written in the eleventh century. 286 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: This project actually offered up another potential avenue for Anne 287 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: and Wilfred to combine their efforts, similar to the way 288 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: that horse breeding kind of state a thing that drew 289 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: them together. So she had translated all of the work, 290 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: and then he had worked her translation into verse, which 291 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: sounds pretty cool, although it was not a great translation. 292 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: Her translation was very very um literal kind of word 293 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: for word, so it lost a little bit of the 294 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: nuance of the original writing. And then because of the 295 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: way Wilfred was taking that kind of direct translation and 296 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: making it in diverse, the whole thing ended up a 297 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: little bit stilted. It didn't get sort of rave reviews 298 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: as being a great English translation of this work of 299 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: Arabic culture. In the meantime, they were starting to have 300 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: some serious issues with money. While Anne had researched horse 301 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: breeding extensively and managed that aspect of the Crabit stud 302 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: Wilfrid had been in charge to the administrative side of 303 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: the business and he had really made a mess of wings. 304 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: He also overspent personally, and things became so concerning that 305 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: Anne had to reassure her brother Ralph that her inheritance 306 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 1: wasn't going to be used to cover their business costs. Yeah, 307 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: people started to realize that Wilfred was just being super 308 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: irresponsible with money, and they were like, hey, you know this, 309 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: this inheritance of yours is intended to to be your 310 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 1: personal Like what keeps you personally afloat? Please don't let 311 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: him siphon off everything from you to fix his problems 312 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 1: in business. And Blunt at this point had also grown 313 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: more forward with his womanizing. It was kind of like, 314 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: once that Lady Gregory situation was out in the open, 315 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: he just stopped trying to be subtle at all and 316 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: in he invited Lady Mary Elco to visit their property 317 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: in Egypt while he and and Judith were there. The 318 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: intent was that he was going to seduce her, and 319 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: this was not just his usual philandering though his political 320 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 1: rival in Ireland Arthur Balfour had also been interested in Mary, 321 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: and while Wilfred was legitimately interested in her, there was 322 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: definitely an element of revenge about this whole situation. Wilfred 323 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: called Mary his bedowin wife, and during this time she 324 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: became pregnant. Mary's husband, Hugo, showed up in the desert 325 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: and joined this party, and Wilfred had a fit of jealousy. 326 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: Hugo and Mary had what seemed to be kind of 327 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 1: an open marriage, so there wasn't a lot of concern 328 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: from their parts about the affair. But a child who 329 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: had been fathered by Wilfred Blunt, which was the only 330 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: possible father based on the timing, was going to be 331 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: really problematic for the family's inheritance, and it was just 332 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 1: going to cause a huge scandal when the Blunts returned 333 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: home to England. Both Mary and her husband had written 334 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 1: Wilfred letters chastising him for having ruined Mary's life. Wilfred 335 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 1: coped with all of this by telling his teenage daughter 336 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: everything for reasons that do not make sense to me, uh, 337 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: and then he kind of ran away for an extended trip. 338 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,239 Speaker 1: He traveled around Europe and a further complicate matters. He 339 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: had also seduced one of Judath's best friends, so again 340 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: one of his daughter's best friends, and then when that 341 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: young woman got married, he talked to Judith about how 342 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: feeling as though he had been abandoned, even though Judith 343 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: was also sad because she realized she wasn't gonna get 344 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: to spend time with her best friend anymore. When Judith 345 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: finally confronted him about his behavior with her closest friend, 346 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: he then threatened to marry his daughter off to whomever 347 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: he chose. Fortunately that she had remained in the marriage 348 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: throughout all of this and had realized that she could 349 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: not trust our count on her husband. While she may 350 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 1: have felt unable to make a move against him for 351 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,959 Speaker 1: all of these infidelities. When he put the breeding program 352 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: in jeopardy with his poor money management, she decided to 353 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: take matters into her own hands. She started breeding some 354 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: of her horses at locations that were away from Crabbit, 355 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: and she kept those locations so secret that she wouldn't 356 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: even put them in her diary. Only she and Judith 357 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: knew where she was doing this. She also started making 358 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: business arrangements to acquire new stock with her own money 359 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: without her husband's involvement. As the Blunts reached the end 360 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century, the various indiscretions which had caused 361 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: scandals and drama seemed to become less of an issue 362 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 1: As time had passed. People just were less up in 363 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: arms about any of it, and Wilfred actually began socializing 364 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: with the same people who had treated him as a 365 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 1: pariah just a few years before, including Mary Elko, the 366 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: woman he had gotten pregnant, and all of her friends, 367 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: and became even more devoted to her horses, and she 368 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: was said to sleep in her riding habits so that 369 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 1: she could jump out of bed and run out to 370 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 1: be with them. First thing. She also allegedly started calling 371 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: the veterinarian for her own illnesses as well as those 372 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: of her animals. Wilfred was ill and had been for 373 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: a number of years, starting with digestive issues and progressing 374 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: to a point where he was taking morphine as a 375 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: pain reliever. Yeah, they were both getting up in age 376 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: at this point. Keep in mind, so, uh, you know, 377 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: many various things were happening. It is a little weird 378 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: and eccentric that she stopped calling human doctors and wanted 379 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: to see veterinary doctors for herself. Um, but we're going 380 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 1: to talk more about their daughter, Judith and her life 381 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: as an adult in just a moment. But first we 382 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: have to have a little moment and hear from one 383 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: of the sponsors that keeps his show going. So Wilfred 384 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: sort of pushed their twenty six year old daughter Judith 385 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: into marriage. She had had many young men interested in 386 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: her over the years, but she had been proposed to 387 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: by family friend Neville Litton, six years her junior, and 388 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: while she was considering the proposal, Wilfred kind of jumped 389 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: the gun and he went ahead and posted an engagement 390 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: announcement in the papers. Judith did not dislike Neville, but 391 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 1: she also didn't feel ready for marriage, and she was 392 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: really terrified at the thought of conceiving and bearing children. 393 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: But just the same she accepted the fate that had 394 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: spooled out before her due to her father's rash behavior. 395 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: And the wedding, with the agreement of both families, was 396 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: in Cairo, but Wilfred opted out of attending, citing his 397 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: poor health as the reason, and Anne wrote him a 398 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: very detailed account of the entire day. Despite just an 399 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: increasing list of medical issues, Wilfred managed to continue to 400 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: stir up trouble both politically and at home. When Anne 401 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: got home from a stay in Egypt after looking after 402 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: the stables there and dealing with some of the business 403 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: decisions that he had made, she found out that he 404 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: had made an entirely new mess in England. He had 405 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: sold off some of their land and horses and had 406 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: allowed other land to become marshy. Yeah, he had this 407 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: weird idea that he was going to let the land 408 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: go back to nature, and so he canceled this carefully 409 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 1: laid out drainage program that they had and Wilfred um 410 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: the Blunts finally separated in nineteen o six. So Ann 411 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: had stayed with him for years, knowing he had never 412 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: been faithful and that he had had children with other women, 413 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: and that he had caused some business problems. But in 414 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,719 Speaker 1: nineteen o six, the final straw came when Wilfred just 415 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: openly moved his mistress at the time, Dorothy Carlton, into 416 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 1: the home that they shared, and additionally, stirred up by 417 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: this idea that maybe they were going to separate, the 418 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: couple began to argue over the future of the stud 419 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 1: that they had built together and how they might proceed 420 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: in separating it. The main biography that I read actually 421 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: kind of hinted that, less so than Dorothy Carlton, the 422 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: way he wanted to handle the stud going forward was 423 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: what really just kind of made Lady Anne say, like, 424 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: I am so done with you. Yes, she eventually had 425 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: to agree to Wilfrid's desire to split their assets, although 426 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: he also believed that in doing so she would owe 427 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 1: him money and that made her really furious. She had 428 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: pitched the idea of just turning over the krabbit stud 429 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: to Judith, but Wilfred was not open to that idea. Eventually, 430 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: she got everything legally settled, She made sure all the 431 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: servants were paid, she stocked the pantry, and she left 432 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: to move in with Judith and her family. Judith eventually 433 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: left her mother in their cottage to move to crabb 434 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: It and tend to the breeding business herself full time. 435 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: And for what it's worth, Wilfred continued to be embroiled 436 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: in drama because he cheated on Dorothy Carlton with many 437 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: of the same paramour as he had kept throughout his life, 438 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: so this was clearly not a matter of him and 439 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 1: Anne being poorly matched. It was just who he was. 440 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: Lady Anne got in the habit of wintering in Egypt 441 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 1: at the breeding farm there and then traveling back to 442 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: Krabbit Park in the summers to visit Judith and Neville 443 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: and her grandchildren. She and Wilfrid eventually reached a point 444 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: that they could visit with one another in about nineteen fifteen, 445 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 1: but the family seemed doomed to always have conflict. Various 446 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: other issues rose up between Judith and Wilfred, and then 447 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: it at an Anne. Wilfred became addicted to morphine, and 448 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: after he and Judith had a massive argument in front 449 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 1: of Judith's children, he was no longer allowed to see 450 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: his grandchildren. In the fall of nineteen fifteen, Lady Anne 451 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: decided to move to Egypt full time. The Crabbitt Park 452 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: facility continued to operate under the stewardship of Judith, although 453 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: it still had financial struggles, and for her part, Anne 454 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: described herself as quite happy in the desert, although she 455 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: was anxious about a variety of things, including things like 456 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 1: finances and her family. She seemed to think she was 457 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: in a much poorer state than she actually was. She 458 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: didn't have a full sense of what her financial value 459 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: actually was. In November of nineteen seventeen, a letter from 460 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: Egypt made its way to Anne's relatives and related the 461 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,120 Speaker 1: news that Anne was very ill with dysenterry. Anne had 462 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: also had a skin condition that had been disfiguring, and 463 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: she didn't want her family to make the journey to 464 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: see her. She died in a real hospital on December fifteenth, 465 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen. Wilfrid designed the headstone for her grave in Egypt, 466 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: which read Pere lies in the Egyptian Desert, which she loved, 467 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 1: Lady Anne Blunt. Lady Anne left Wilfred her notes and 468 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: books on horse breeding, but nothing else. Judith received a 469 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: manuscript that Anne had been working on, and Anne left 470 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: her little else because she felt that she was pretty 471 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: properly squared away financially. The like the family money was 472 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: passing to her, and she was married, and she left 473 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: all of her major assets, including the land in Egypt, 474 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: to trustees to hold for her grandchildren, specifically her granddaughters, 475 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,239 Speaker 1: because they were not inheriting the titles that her grandson was. 476 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: Wilfrid and Judith ended up miired in a legal battle 477 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: over the assets that the trustees had taken possession of 478 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: the horses, which were widely recognized for their value, had 479 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: been seized by Blunt, but Judith and her children took 480 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: them from his property. They moved him back to Krabbit. Simultaneously, 481 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: other breeders were trying to make offers on all the stock, 482 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: but the question of ownership made the whole situation a 483 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: big mess. After a legal battle, Wilfred Blunt lost the 484 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 1: horses to his daughter. That was something of a shock 485 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: to him. I think he really thought, like I helped 486 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 1: put this whole thing together. They were my wife's horses, 487 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: so they should be my horses. He was a little surprised, 488 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: but he actually died not that long after all of this, 489 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: on September. Judith Blunt Litton divorced from Neville in nineteen twenty, 490 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: but she devoted her life to continuing her mother's work. 491 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: She maintained the Crabbitt bloodlines for years. She finished her 492 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: mother's book, titled The Authentic Arabian Horse in that had 493 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: been Anne's greatest project, and it was the manuscript that 494 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: had been left to Judith in the will, and today 495 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 1: an estimated of Arabian horses in the world can trace 496 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 1: at least one of their bloodlines back to the crabb 497 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: At stock and that is all thanks to the work 498 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: of Lady Anne Blunt and her daughter Judith. Do you 499 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: have some listener mail for us? I do, and it's 500 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 1: not so dramatic Like I the whole time I was 501 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: reading her biography and a biography on Wilfred, I just 502 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 1: kept marveling and how dramatic all of it was, particularly 503 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: the fact that so many of these marriages. I mean, 504 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: I understood all for a long time that a lot 505 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: of marriages at that level of society are kind of 506 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: arranged for financial benefit and for positioning, but they really 507 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: were just so casually like, oh, you should go stay 508 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 1: with your mistress while she's sick and we'll hook back 509 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: up later, and you I'm gonna go see this person, 510 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: and the nature of it is so very soap operay 511 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,719 Speaker 1: that it was just startling to me that it was 512 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: not necessarily like one or two here and there, pretty common. Uh. 513 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: My listener mail, however, is delightful. It is brief because 514 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: this episode ran a little long. It is about the 515 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: Georgia gold Rush, and it is sent from our listener 516 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: page page rights Holly and Tracy, thank you for the 517 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: episode on the Georgia gold Rush. My mother's family has 518 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: lived in Hall County, Georgia since eighteen thirty two, when 519 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: an ancestor won a parcel in the land lottery. Unfortunately, 520 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: my ancestors also played a part in the removal of 521 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: the Cherokee. I have taken a field trip to a 522 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: gold mine and honestly cannot recommend going out of your 523 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: way to visit de Lanaga No shaded a laaga. I'm 524 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: sure it's lovely. I know lots of friends that think 525 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: it's darling, but I loved hearing a mention of our 526 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: little town, Gainesville originally called mule Camp Springs. Uh. Love 527 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: you ladies. Keep spreading knowledge. That's very cool. Um, the 528 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: the idea. I mean, it's not cool what happened to 529 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: the cherpy, but it's cool that you can so readily 530 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: trace your family's history back to an event the first 531 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: gold dress in the United States. Uh. If you would 532 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,479 Speaker 1: like to write to us, you can do so at 533 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,239 Speaker 1: History podcast, a house to works dot com. 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