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Lord Cornbury said that the reason that he dressed like a woman was to honor Queen Anne, his cousin and the Queen of England at that time.
Lord Cornburu
Queen Anne
'You are all very stupid people not to see the propriety of it all. In this place and occasion, I represent a woman (the Queen), and in all respects I ought to represent her as faithfully as I can." '
Embarrassment
Begining Rule
Lord Cornbury was appointed govenor of New York and New Jersey in 1701. He travelled to America where he apparently gained a reputation as the 'worst governor Britain ever imposed on an American colony'. He supposedly took bribes, plundered the public treasury and is said to have spent half of his time dressed in women's clothes.
Family Life.
Lord Cornbury married Catherine Lady Cornbury, but the couple had a troublesom mariage. Lord Cornbury would not give Lady Cornbury money for clothes, so she had to resort boworing clothes from other women, and not returning them. The couple had 5 children, 4 daughters and one son. But only their daughter Theodosia would live after Lord and Lady Cornbury.
Lord Cornbury
as the way God intented him to be.
A popular story tells how he received the official world at Albany on the Queen's birthday dressed in female attire copied from the robes of his Royal mistress. A portrait, now hanging in the New York Historical Society, is even thought by many to represent Cornbury in this costume. While contemporary evidence of such outrageous conduct is distinctly lacking and largely based on rumour, he was recalled from New York in 1708 and immediately thrown into prison by his creditors.. He died on 31st March 1723.
One night during the early 1700s, a constable working for the British colony of New York arrested what he presumed was a prostitute walking along Broadway. When the suspect was brought back to the stockade, however, it was discovered that he had actually taken into custody the colonial governor, who enjoyed taking evening strolls in his wife's clothes.
End of the Road
