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Dean Stanley had accompanied the Prince of Wales on a tour of the Middle East, which was to bear fruit in his Sermons in the East: 'it was not without tension, for the prince preferred shooting to the inspection of ancient sites and monuments'. During the course of the tour, Stanley's mother died and met his future wife, Lady Augusta Bruce, to whom he was 'married quietly' at Westminster Abbey on his return (P. C. Hammond, ODNB).