Katharine Parnell | |
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Born | Katharine Wood 30 January 1846 Braintree, Essex, England |
Died | 5 February 1921 | (aged 75)
Spouses | |
Children | 5 |
Katharine Parnell (née Wood; 30 January 1846 – 5 February 1921), known before her second marriage as Katharine O'Shea and popularly as Kitty O'Shea, was an English woman of aristocratic background whose adulterous relationship with Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell led to a widely publicised divorce in 1890 and his political downfall.