Mary de Mauny Talvande

Wife of Maurice Talvande, Count de Mauny Talvande.

In June 1898 de Mauny married Lady Mary Byng, daughter of the 4th Earl of Strafford, and a maid of honour to Queen Victoria, whom he may have met through her brother who had attended his school. There was talk that Lady Mary married de Mauny, who had no social position or fortune, due to her hostility to her father's second marriage to a wealthy American divorcee, Mrs Cora Colgate.