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Who was the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte when Lady Mary travelled to the Ottoman Empire?

  • Edward Wortley Montagu

  • John Montagu

  • Robert Walpole

  • George Grenville

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English writer and traveller, was married to Edward Wortley Montagu, the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte, the Ottoman government, in 1716. The couple travelled to Constantinople, now Istanbul, in 1717.
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