9. Torrid Love Affairs
Mary Bowes and the Earth of Strathmore and Kingmore had five children. However, when the Earl caught tuberculosis, Mary grew frustrated with his increasing debility and lack of sex drive. She started cheating on her husband, carried on a series of love affairs, and earned a reputation for licentiousness in the process.
When the Earl finally died in 1776, the widowed Mary resumed control of her fortune, and took up with a new beau, George Gray. He got her pregnant four times within a year, with Mary aborting each one.