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Masham, Abigail

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Masham, Abigail (died 1734)

English courtier. Her first cousin Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, procured her the position of ‘woman of the bedchamber’ to Princess Anne. She retained her situation after the princess ascended the throne, acquired great power, and supplanted the duchess in the queen's favour.

Through Masham's influence with the queen, Robert Harley intrigued against his colleagues. In 1711 her husband Samuel Masham was raised to the peerage. He and his wife appear to have engaged in intrigues in favour of Bolingbroke and the exiled Stuarts. After Queen Anne's death Abigail Masham retired from court.



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