George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales , was induced by the will of Parliament to marry his cousin Caroline of Brunswick in order for the government to agree to paying off many of his debts. The marriage was an unmitigated disaster . George arranged that at his coronation that the Princess ,rightfully now Queen-consort , be locked out of Westminster Abbey George's debts in toto were only recently fully paid off, thanks always to the British taxpayer. Edmund did marry an Heiress, and also widow of a well know West Indian Sugar Merchant. Her name was Mary Harnage Blackman, not quite Amy Hardwood ( an obvious 'dick-joke') but at least the equally recognizable Mary Hardman. Mary, unlike Amy, truly delivered a Plantation in Barbados , it is called 'Boarded Hall' gained through loaning her son , from her first marriage, Sir George Harnage ( the regularly bankrupt Director of the Bank of England) , money to pay his debts mortgaged against the sugar plantation. Mary died in 1836 at the same address her second husband, 'our Edmund' died 6 years previously. At there marriage in 1797 Edmund was 40 years old and his wife 60.
