Lady Wetheral and her husband Sir John were blessed with four girls and Lady Wetheral, manipulative and scheming as she was, has made arrangements for all of them before they were even aware of it. She wanted a son next, but it was a faith that she gives birth to a fifth daughter whom she decided to ignore. The birth of the fifth daughter decided the downfall of Lady Wetheral's power and lives of the sisters began to take their coloring from the sentiments of their maneuvering mother.

Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury (1775-1861) was an English novelist, who is chiefly remembered in connection with a Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV.