That was an interesting article. What complicated family relationships these people had! That article didn’t mention that Georgiana Duchess’s daughter Harriot married
Lord Grey, the father of her half-sister Eliza. It also didn’t mention that the Devonshire menage included the Duke’s daughter by a paramour, who was brought up by Georgiana with her own children.
Their house was gorgeous, but what a mess! (And of course, no flush toilets ...)
And it was all about money, and keeping it in the families. Can't imagine how I would have dealt with an arranged marriage to a cousin, or a rich old fogey. I wished I'd had the time to visit Chatsworth and other homes on the two trips I took to the UK. I got to Blenheim Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and a home or two in Ireland and Blair Castle, and Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. There are so many stately homes to see, but it's only a fraction of what was once there. So many were allowed to rot, or were torn down. To avoid having to pay taxes on some of these properties, the families took the roofs off of them to make them uninhabitable. What a shame.