#dally the tall

As some blogs tend to do, The Gossip Guide will begin to feature some weekly hotness. Although these sexy ladiez have been in the ground a couple of centuries, that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve their place to be ogled in the blog sphere. The tart who receives the first honor of this position is one close to my heart: Grace Dalrymple Elliott.

Yeah, I know. At first glance she looks kind of like your grandma, but once you get past the interesting shade of powder and the charcoaled eyebrows, Grace was like a supermodel, or at least tall enough to be one. During the height of her celebrity she was known as Dally the Tall. Unlike most supermodels today, she was not crazy and a smart cookie. She was a child bride of this fat, ugly doctor in London who divorced her after, it is alleged, he caught her sleeping with a hot rake. Meow! She went on to have affairs with The Prince of Wales and the Duke d'Orleans, among others. She spent most of her life in France, and gave us some of the most reputable accounts of the French Revolution, which she saw firsthand. Grace narrowly escaped the guillotine after months in French prisons, even having her hair sheared off in preparation. Although she was arrested just to be arrested, she was a firm royalist, had helped Marie Antoinette with correspondence during the Revolution, and may have even met the future Empress Josephine during her imprisonment. Obviously she also had strong connections with other hot tarts! Plus, you kind of have to like her just based on the fact that she wore low cut gowns for her formal portraits.

Source: http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.com/2008/05/tart-of-week.html