Francis Hastings, Lord Hastings


Francis Hastings, Lord Hastings was the son of George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Dorothy Port. He married Sarah Harington, daughter of Sir James Harington and Lucy Sydney. They had five children:
His widow, Sara or Sarah Harington married Sir George Kingsmith, then Edward 11th Baron Zouche, and finally, Sir Thomas Edmondes. Her portrait was painted by Isaac Oliver and by Cornelius Johnson. The portraits by Johnson show her aged 63 wearing a large miniature case referring to Frederick V of the Palatinate with the Greek letter "phi". An similar miniature case was described in an inventory of a Scottish soldier.

Britain's Real Monarch

In Britain's Real Monarch the oldest son is in the alternative succession to the Plantagenet monarch
Elizabeth II is also descended from the oldest sister