Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon


Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon was a British Lady in Waiting. She is known as the influential favorite of queen regent Caroline.

Life

Charlotte Dyve was the granddaughter of Sir Lewis Dyve of Bromham in Bedfordshire. She married William Clayton, a Treasury official, at some date before 1715. In 1735 she became Lady Sundon when her husband was made first Baron Sundon.
Charlotte Clayton was a woman of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline from 1714 until 1737. She enjoyed a lot of influence with the Queen, who served as regent during the absence of the king, and she was mistrusted by Robert Walpole who suspected that it was her opinions that were making the Queen uncooperative in state affairs. It was alleged that she even proposed that she and Walpole could rule the country.