Walburga Ehrengarde Helena, Lady Paget (née Hohenthal; 1839 - 1929) was born in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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. She was a diarist, writer and an intimate friend of Queen Victoria. The daughter of Charles Frederic Anthony, Count von Hohenthal, Paget married Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget

Augustus Berkeley Paget

Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget GCB was the son of Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Paget and Lady Augusta Fane, nephew of General Sir Edward Paget and grandson of The 1st Earl of Uxbridge....

 (1823-1896), British ambassador

Ambassador

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 to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 in 1860 and later British Ambassador in Rome

Rome

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 and Vienna

Vienna

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. Lady Paget before her marriage had been a lady-in-waiting to the newly married Prussian Crown Princess

Victoria, Princess Royal

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. After her husband's posting to Copenhagen, Paget was instrumental in helping Queen Victoria to arrange the marriage of the Prince of Wales, Edward VII, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...

. The Pagets had three children; William Frederick Augustus Paget (1861 - 1927), Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline Paget (1863 - 1944), and Ralph Spencer Paget (1864 - 1940).

Paget in her book Colloquies with an unseen friend (1907) was an early writer to mention the hollow earth

Hollow Earth

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 theory, she claimed that cities exist beneath a desert

Desert

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, which is where the descendants of Atlantis

Atlantis

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 moved to, she further claimed that an entrance will be discovered to this subterranean kingdom in the 21st century.

Paget died of burns after falling asleep by the fire at her home Unlawater House, Newnham on Severn

Newnham on Severn

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, England, at the age of 90.

Her published works, mostly memoirs based on her life and experiences, include:

• "Colloquies with an unseen friend". 1907
• "Embassies of Other Days". 1923
• "In My Tower". 1924
• "The Linings of Life". 1929