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Lady Elizabeth, ^ [[addition]] FitzClarence [[/addition]] who was born in 1801, was the first of the FitzClarence sisters to marry; [[deletion]] H [[/deletion]] [[addition]] h [[/addition]]er husband, the [[addition]] 16th [[/addition]] Earl of Errol K.T. G.H. G.H.C., was Hereditary High Constable of Scotland. Lady Elizabeth had become engaged soon after the Duke and Duchess of Clarence had settled at Bushy [[addition]] ; [[/addition]] [[deletion]] T [[/deletion]] [[addition]] t [[/addition]]he letter which follows was written to the Countess of Arran by the Princess of Hesse Homburg [[addition]], daughter of King George III [[/addition]] The Duchess of Clarence is quite an angel! How well she has behaved to all William's children and to Eliza, who, I rejoice to say, is to be so well married. I say well for better blood there cannot be and takes off all difficulties about her. I wish that the other girls may do as well, and I trust she may be as happy as she deserves. In a second letter written the same year on the 27th of December the Princess again refers to the Errol wedding which had taken place at St George's Hanover square. Eliza's bridesmaids were Augusta d'Este [[addition]] ( [[/addition]] daughter of the Duke of Sussex [[addition]] ) [[/addition]], and who looked lovely, and is my doting piece, Miss Boyle and Eliza's three nieces, Lady Ida Hay, Augusta Fitz- FitzClarence and Adelaide Sydney - she is the prettiest little doll you ever saw. The King handed in the bride and as soon as the signing was over, she retired to change, and then put on a magnificent pelisse, bonnet and veil and went off very quietly The Countess of Erroll's second daughter married the Early of Fife Fife, K.T., and their ^ [[addition]] eldest [[/addition]] son married the late Princess Royal.