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Prince's shooting parties. This included the damage that resulted from Edward VII's addiction to shooting, Sandringham's tenant farmers being forbidden from shooting rabbits and hares as this was a privilege reserved for the Prince's guests. The consequent damage caused to the farmers' crops was intended to be compensated by the estate paying "game damages".
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could assist her. However, she did have the advice of a farmer named John Groom who had been her husband's guide to farming issues. She was soon taken to court by James Mingay who she had sacked after a few months. She represented herself in court and Mingay's application for lost wages was dismissed.
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In 1863 their baby daughter, Frances, died. They had one surviving child, Gerard
Francis Oswald, who was born in 1864. In 1865, when she was 35. her husband died and she was left in sole charge of a large farm. 90% of large farms at that time were run by men and she did not have a working-age son who
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In 1887 she published "Eighteen Years on
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