Editing Maria Fitzherbert (section)

==Early life==
Fitzherbert was born at [[Tong Castle]] in [[Shropshire]].<ref name=austen>{{cite magazine |last=Carroll |first=Leslie |title=A problem like Maria? |magazine=Jane Austen's Regency World |pages=14–21 |year=2010 |url=https://lesliecarroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/JARW_39_14-21-Maria-Fitzherbert-article-Carroll.pdf |via=Author’s website |access-date=2021-09-28}}</ref> She was the eldest child of Walter Smythe (c. 1721–1788) of [[Brambridge]], [[Hampshire]], younger son of Sir John [[Smythe Baronets|Smythe]], 3rd [[Baronet]], of [[Acton Burnell]], Shropshire.<ref name=munson>{{cite book |last=Munson |first=James |title=Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |year=2001 |isbn=978-0786709045 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTy3QgAACAAJ&q=editions:WbF6FZ-oQzEC |access-date=2021-10-01}}</ref> Her mother was Mary Ann Errington of Beaufront, [[Northumberland]], maternal half-sister of [[Charles William Molyneux, 1st Earl of Sefton]]. Fitzherbert was educated in Paris at a French convent.<ref name="Maria Fitzherbert">{{Britannica|208924}}</ref>