Julia Peel
wife of British PM Robert Peel
Julia, Lady Peel (née Floyd; 19 September 1795 – 27/28 October 1859) was the wife of the British politician and Prime Minister Robert Peel. She was considered "remarkable for personal beauty" and was captured in the 1827 portrait Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel.
Early life
Julia was born in 1795 in Trichinopoly, Tamil Nadu, British India, the third child of army officer Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet and his wife, Rebecca Juliana, daughter of merchant Charles Darke. Her father was the Murat of the Third Anglo-Mysore War "and the most dashing cavalry officer of his day." She had an elder sister Miranda, who married Lt.-Gen. Sir Joseph Fuller, and an elder brother, Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Floyd, 2nd Bt. She had a younger sister, Flavia, born in 1797. Flavia died in 1802, and their mother died of the same illness two days later. Julia then returned to England.
Marriage
She became engaged to Peel, recently the Chief Secretary of Ireland, in March 1820 and the couple married on 8 June that year.
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