" During her childhood, Jane had been “placed out,” the term for children from middle-income families who were sent to live with members of the nobility, or the offspring of an aristocrat who were sent to the palace to learn the manners and customs of royalty, to better cement the family’s social connections and pave the way for a spectacular marriage. "

― Leslie Carroll , Inglorious Royal Marriages: A Demi-Millennium of Unholy Mismatrimony