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. She was the eldest child of the Prime Minister

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and his wife, the former

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, daughter of the Tory statesman

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. Lady Williams-Wynn was a first cousin of Prime Minister William Pitt through her paternal aunt Hester Grenville, who married

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. Her mother and father died in 1769 and 1770 respectively, and guardianship of their daughter Charlotte was assumed by George's elder brother,

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. On 21 December 1771, she married

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (23 September 1749 – 24 July 1789) was a Wales, Welsh landowner, politician and patron of the arts. The Williams-Wynn baronets had been begun in 1688 by the politician Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of ...

, and became known as Lady Williams-Wynn. The couple had eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood, including Watkin (who went on to be the 5th Baronet),

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, and Henrietta, who married Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere of Vale Royal. Upon her husband's death, Lady Williams-Wynn became the sole administrator of his Welsh estates under the terms of his will, and functioned as such until her eldest son reached the

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