William Lygon, the 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938) was a married man with seven children: three sons and four daughters by his wife, Lady Lettice Grosvenor. Her brother reported William's homosexuality to the King and Queen and he had to leave the UK and go into exile on the continent. His daughters, who were close to him, used to tell the young men who were visiting them for week-ends that they should lock their bedroom doors at night because their father would try to enter their rooms.
