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Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1749–1800), known as "The Unhappy Countess", was an 18th-century British heiress, notorious for her licentious lifestyle, who was married at one time to the 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.Celebrity Australian psychicpredicts surprising future for Taylor Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce - two months after the couple debuted their romance

Jessica Simpson, 43, bares her VERY toned tummy in a sexy crop top and spandex pants as the mom-of-three enjoys a night out in NYC After his marriage to the Countess, he behaved brutally towards her in a sustained catalogue of abuse, including physical, mental and financial abuse. When he discovered that she had secretly made a pre-nuptial agreement safeguarding her finances, he forced her to sign a revocation handing control to him. Among other outrages, he imprisoned her in her own house, and forced her and one of her daughters to go into exile in Paris. They returned after a writ had been served on him. At the same time, he raped the maids, invited prostitutes into the home and fathered numerous illegitimate children.Yet not even this underhand behaviour could not have prepared Mary for the horrors to come - eight years of a violent marriage during which Stoney endeavoured to make every year of his wife’s life more miserable than the last. Danielle Harold's mother touches down in Australia as she declares the soap star is 'already a winner in her eyes' By pitting her wits against one of history’s vilest husbands and the legal and religious establishment - at a time when women enjoyed little protection - she won an historic divorce case which would stand as a beacon of hope to inspire campaigners in the battle for women’s rights. Lauren Pope's daughter, 3, is rushed to hospital due to medical emergency - after TOWIE star split from millionaire boyfriend Tony Keterman Sandra Oh and Awkwafina recall Paul Reubens having a 'great spirit' on set as they reflect on working with the late actor during his last film Quiz Lady

Moore makes much of the irony that a statue of Lady Liberty presided over Mary's luxurious childhood home in County Durham. Riches, beauty, wit, and an excellent education bought Mary Eleanor Bowes anything but liberty. As Moore shows, nothing could save her from the fate of legal nonentity that she shared with every other married woman of her time. Neither could anything spare her the merciless scrutiny of a celebrity-obsessed press that flourished on scandal, and judged the countess author of her own woes. Years later Mary wrote a prototype misery memoir, recalling the tortures she endured, including a horrific abduction. It was a counterpoint to the Confessions her husband had bullied out of her and then published. She rightly imagined her cathartic Narrative would "stagger the belief of Posterity". Cynthia Nixon's hunger strike to try and end Israel-Palestine conflict will only last two or three DAYS, source claimsMargot Robbie joins Michelle Williams,Penelope Cruz and Natalie Portman on the red carpet at the Gotham Independent Film Awards It would take four years - due in part to Stoney’s cunning and prevarication - before she divorced him on the grounds of cruelty.