Elizabeth Craven, Princess Berkeley and Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1750-1828) was an English socialite, playwright and travel writer. Twice married, she resided with her second husband, the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach at Craven Villa in Posillipo.∼Princess Berkeley (though styled Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach), and previously Lady Craven of Hamstead Marshall, was an author, playwright, traveller, and socialite, perhaps best known for her travelogues. She was the third child of the 4th Earl of Berkeley, born near Trafalgar Square, City of Westminster. Early in her literary career she wrote a number of light farces, pantomimes, and fables, many of which were performed in London to no great acclaim. She knew Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, and became a close friend of Horace Walpole, who published her early works which, with later efforts, include: The Sleep-Walker (trans. of Pont de Vile's comedy La somnambule, 1778); Modern Anecdotes of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns (satire, 1779); The Miniature Picture (play, 1781); A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (travel writing, 1789) and The Georgian Princess (produced 1798; published 1799). Her life was full of scandal: after thirteen years of marriage, six children, and affairs reported on both sides, she and her first husband, William Craven, 6th Baron Craven, divorced in 1780. She then lived in France and travelled extensively on the Continent. For years she was in a relationship with Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth. His wife since 1754, Princess Friederike of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, died in Germany on 18 February 1791, and Lady Craven's husband died in 1791. The couple married in Lisbon on 30 October 1791. They settled in England and while the Margravine was snubbed by ladies mindful of their reputations, as well as by her latest husband's cousin, George III himself, the couple lived a busy and opulent life in Hammersmith, London and Benham Park at Speen in Berkshire. In 1801, she was granted the morganatic title of "Princess Berkeley" by the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II.