Dorothea Jordan

What strikes me about Dorothea Jordan is how a celebrated Anglo-Irish comic actress is now remembered mostly as a royal footnote. Born near Waterford in 1761, she became the long-time partner of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, the future King William IV, and bore him ten children, all taking the FitzClarence name. I find it telling that her stage talent gets eclipsed by that liaison. Her life reads as both glittering and precarious: adored on the boards, yet ultimately set aside and dying in 1816. To me she embodies the brutal arithmetic faced by women who built careers on charm in a deeply unequal era.

Name (English)

Dorothea Jordan

Name (Japanese)

ドロシー・ジョーダン

Reading

どろしー・じょーだん

Born

November 21, 1761 – July 5, 1816

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

Origin

Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland

Occupation

stage actor / actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3

Tags

• County Waterford
• stage actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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