Notes
Prologue
1. Rev. L. V. Harcourt (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence of the Rt Hon. George Rose (4 vols, London, 1860), I, p. 188.
2. Romney Sedgwick (ed.), Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756–1766 (London, 1939), p. 48.
3. Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Derek Jarrett (4 vols, London, 1999), I, p. 6.
4. Walpole to George Montagu, 22 July 1761, The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, ed. W. S. Lewis (48 vols, New Haven, 1937–83), IX, p. 378.
5. César de Saussure, A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II, ed. Mme van Muyden (London, 1902), p. 177.
6. Ibid., p. 179.
7. Ibid., p. 111.
8. Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Europe, 1648–1815 (London, 2007), p. 9.
9. Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J. H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialisation of Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1982), p. 21.
10. Ibid.
11. Frederick A. Pottle (ed.), Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763 (New Haven, 1950), p. 44.
12. Ibid., index, pp. 343–70.
13. Blanning, Pursuit of Glory, p. 95, quoting Paul Langford.
14. Ibid., p. 111.
15. McKendrick et al., Consumer Society, p. 10.
16. Ibid., p. 80.
17. De Saussure, A Foreign View, p. 113.
18. McKendrick et al., Consumer Society, p. 77.
19. Ibid., p. 26.
20. Blanning, Pursuit of Glory, p. 111.
21. Jeremy Black, George III, America’s Last King (New Haven, 2006), p. 43.
22. Walpole to George Montagu, 13 November 1760, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, IX, p. 320.
23. James Greig (ed.), The Diaries of a Duchess (London, 1926), p. 35.
24. Walpole to Horace Mann, 28 October 1760, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXI, p. 442
25. The Countess of Ilchester and Lord Stavordale (eds), The Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox, 1745–1826 (London, 1904), p. 607.
26. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, I, p. 8.
Chapter 1 – The Strangest Family
1. Black, George III, p. 44.
2. Horace Walpole, Lord Orford’s Reminiscences (London, 1818), pp. 6–8.
3. Alice Drayton Greenwood, Lives of the Hanoverian Queens of England (2 vols, London, 1909–11), I, p. 7.
4. Ibid.
5. Ragnhild Hatton, George I (New Haven, 2001), p. 27.
6. Hatton, George I, p. 27.
7. Greenwood, Hanoverian Queens, I, p. 20.
8. Hatton, George I, p. 34.
9. Ibid., p. 49.
10. Greenwood, Hanoverian Queens, I, p. 48.
11. Ibid., p. 64.
12. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 20.
13. Hatton, George I, p. 59.
14. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 21.
15. Hatton, George I, p. 64.
16. Greenwood, Hanoverian Queens, I, p. 110.
17. Dr Doran, Lives of the Queens of England (2 vols, London, 1855), I, pp. 194–95.
18. John, Lord Hervey, Some Materials Towards Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Romney Sedgwick (3 vols, London, 1931), III, p. 918.
19. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 35.
20. Hervey, Memoirs, III, p. 917.
21. Greenwood, Hanoverian Queens, I, p. 188.
22. Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Lord Holland (3 vols, London, 1846), I, p. 175.
23. Andrew C. Thompson, George II (New Haven, 2011), p. 32.
24. Hervey, Memoirs, II, pp. 340–41.
25. Ibid., I, p. 261.
26. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 29.
27. W. H. Wilkins, Caroline the Illustrious (2 vols, London, 1902), I, p. 30.
28. Ibid., p. 44.
29. Thompson, George II, p. 37.
30. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 84.
31. Hervey, Memoirs, II, p. 641.
32. Ibid., I, p. 254.
33. Hervey, Memoirs, II, p. 445.
34. Ibid., I, p. 262.
35. Wilkins, Caroline the Illustrious, I, p. 34.
36. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Holland, I, p. 176.
37. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 261.
38. Ibid., p. 488.
39. Wilkins, Caroline the Illustrious, I, p. 16.
40. Ibid., p. 201.
41. Ibid., p. 207.
42. Mary Clavering, Countess Cowper, Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, 1714–1720 (London, 1864), p. 99.
43. Wilkins, Caroline the Illustrious, I, p. 162.
44. Ibid., p. 151
45. Ibid., p. 326.
46. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 46.
47. Greenwood, Hanoverian Queens, I, p. 226.
48. Ibid., p. 237.
49. Ibid., p. 238.
50. Ibid., pp. 262–63.
51. Cowper, Diary, p. 132.
52. Ibid., p. 131.
53. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 68.
54. Greenwood, Hanoverian Queens, I, p. 236.
Chapter 2 – A Passionate Partnership
1. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 22.
2. Thompson, George II, p. 73.
3. Ibid., p. 75.
4. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. lv.
5. Ibid., p. xxiv.
6. Ibid., II, p. 349.
7. Ibid., I, p. 45.
8. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Holland, I, p. 179.
9. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 69.
10. Thompson, George II, pp. 216–17.
11. Hervey, Memoirs, II, p. 487.
12. Ibid., p. 486.
13. Ibid., p. 487.
14. Greenwood, Hanoverian Queens, I, p. 342.
15. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 74.
16. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 41.
17. Walpole, Reminiscences, p. 84.
18. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 43.
19. Ibid., II, p. 472.
20. Ibid., p. 278.
21. Ibid., p. 382.
22. Ibid., p. 458.
23. Ibid., p. 458–59.
24. Ibid., p. 496.
25. Ibid., p. 490.
26. Ibid., p. 599.
27. Ibid., p. 600.
28. Ibid., p. 603.
29. Ibid., p. 649.
30. Wilkins, Caroline the Illustrious, I, pp. 278–79.
31. Greenwood, Hanoverian Queens, I, p. 234.
32. Marples, Morris, Poor Fred and the Butcher (London, 1970), p. 13.
33. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 95.
34. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 20.
35. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 309.
36. Ibid., p. 306.
37. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 6.
38. Ibid., p.13.
39. Lucy Moore, Amphibious Thing: The Life of a Georgian Rake (London, 2000), p. 102.
40. Ibid., p. 104.
41. Robert Halsband, Lord Hervey, Eighteenth-Century Courtier (Oxford, 1973), p. 68.
42. Ibid., pp. 69, 71.
43. Moore, Amphibious Thing, p. 105.
44. Halsband, Lord Hervey, p. 127.
45. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 24.
46. Moore, Amphibious Thing, p. 96.
47. Ibid., p.144.
48. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 307.
49. Ibid., III, p. 820.
50. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Holland, I, p. 72.
51. Hervey, Memoirs, I, p. 234.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid., p. 305.
54. Ibid., II, p. 504.
55. Ibid., p. 371.
56. Ibid., III, p. 843.
57. Ibid., I, p. 310.
58. Ibid., II, pp. 550–51.
59. Ibid., p. 550.
60. Ibid., pp. 552–53.
61. Ibid., p. 614.
62. Ibid., p. 617.
63. Ibid., III, p. 757.
64. Ibid., pp. 758–59.
65. Ibid., p. 760.
66. Ibid., p. 762.
67. Ibid., p. 844.
68. Ibid., p. 677.
69. Ibid., p. 681.
70. Ibid., p. 806.
71. Ibid., p. 807.
72. Ibid., p. 820.
73. Ibid., p. 812.
74. Ibid., II, p. 372.
75. Ibid., III, p. 877.
76. Ibid., p. 881.
77. Ibid., p. 910.
78. Ibid., p. 883.
79. Ibid., pp. 891–92.
80. Ibid., p. 896.
81. Ibid., p. 884.
82. Ibid., p. 916.
83. Ibid., p. 909.
Chapter 3 – Son and Heir
1. Anon., George III, His Court and Family (London, 1821), p. 74.
2. Stella Tillyard, A Royal Affair, George III and his Troublesome Siblings (London, 2008), p. 20.
3. Black, George III, p. 6.
4. Anon., Court and Family, p. 74.
5. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 90.
6. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Holland, I, p. 76.
7. Ibid., p. 145.
8. Ibid.
9. George Bubb Dodington, The Political Journal of George Bubb Dodington, ed. John Carswell and Leslie Dralle (Oxford, 1965), p. 75.
10. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 88.
11. Tillyard, Royal Affair, p. 22.
12. Anon., Court and Family, p. 97.
13. Tillyard, Royal Affair, p. 24.
14. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 79.
15. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 59.
16. Anon., Court and Family, p. 118.
17. Christopher Hibbert, George III: A Personal History (London, 1998), p. 13.
18. Tillyard, Royal Affair, p. 24.
19. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 79.
20. Tillyard, Royal Affair, p. 24.
21. J. A. Home (ed.), The Letters and Journals of Lady Mary Coke (4 vols, Edinburgh, 1889), I, p. lxxxiv.
22. Ibid.
23. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. ix.
24. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. lxxxv.
25. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 104.
26. John L. Bullion, ‘“George, Be a King!” The Relationship between Princess Augusta and George III’, in Stephen Taylor, Richard Connors and Clyve Jones (eds), Hanoverian Britain and Empire (London, 1998), p. 182.
27. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 105.
28. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Holland, I, p. 71.
29. Ibid., p. 77.
30. Hibbert, George III, p. 14.
31. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 112.
32. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Holland, I, p. 83.
33. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 141.
34. Ibid., p. 154.
35. Ibid., p. 176.
36. Ibid., p. 153.
37. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. xx.
38. Marples, Poor Fred, p. 197.
39. J. H. Jesse, Memoirs of the Life and Reign of George III (3 vols, London, 1867), I, p. 10.
40. Ibid., p. 11.
41. Bullion, ‘George, Be a King!’, p. 183.
42. Hervey, Memoirs, III, pp. 792–93.
43. Bullion, ‘George, Be a King!’, p. 188n.
44. Ibid., p. 183.
45. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, ed. Holland, I, p. 78.
46. Ibid.
47. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 180.
48. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 15n.
49. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 190.
50. Ibid., p. 200.
51. Ibid., p. 208.
52. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 16.
53. Ibid., p. 105.
54. Doran, Lives of the Queens of England, I, p. 433.
55. Home (ed.), Coke, II, p. 264.
56. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, II, p. 6.
57. Ibid., III, p. 176.
58. Dodington, Political Journal, pp. 240–41.
59. Ibid., p. 271.
60. Ibid., p. 300.
61. Hibbert, George III, p. 19.
62. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 21.
63. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 86.
64. Hibbert, George III, p. 16.
65. Tillyard, Royal Affair, p. 37.
66. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 318.
67. Ibid., p. 178.
68. Ibid., p. 207.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid., p. 318.
71. Ibid., p. 178.
72. James, Earl Waldegrave, Memoirs (London, 1821), pp. 63–64.
73. Ibid., p. 63.
74. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 202.
75. Waldegrave, Memoirs, p. 10.
76. Ibid., p. 9.
77. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 178.
78. Nathaniel Wraxall, The Historical and Posthumous Memoirs of Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, ed. Henry Wheatley (4 vols, London, 1884), I, p. 64.
79. Waldegrave, Memoirs, p. 38.
80. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. xliv.
81. Wraxall, Historical Memoirs, I, p. 62.
82. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 196.
83. Ibid., p. 11n.
84. Ibid., p. xxxvi.
85. Ibid., p. 176.
86. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, pp. 2–3.
87. Ibid., p. 4n.
88. Ibid., p. 4.
89. Ibid., p. 3.
90. Ibid., p. 21.
91. Ibid., p. 4.
92. Ibid., p. 45.
93. Ibid., p. liii.
94. Ibid.
95. Black, George III, p. 12.
96. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. lii.
97. Ibid., p. liii.
98. Ibid., p. 31n.
99. Ibid., p. 4.
100. Ibid., p. 5.
101. Ibid., p. 45.
102. Tillyard, Royal Affair, p. 26.
103. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, pp. 36, 13–14.
104. Ibid., p. 15.
105. Ibid., p. 20.
106. Ibid., p. 13.
107. Ibid., p. 46.
108. Ibid., p. 168.
109. Ibid., pp. 45–46.
110. Ibid., p. 6.
111. Ibid., pp. 26–27.
112. Ibid., p. 43.
113. Ibid., p. 37.
114. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 43.
115. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 37.
116. Ibid., p. 38.
117. Countess of Ilchester and Lord Stavordale (eds), Lady Sarah Lennox (London, 1904), p. 87.
118. Ibid., p. 88.
119. Ibid.
120. Stella Tillyard, Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily and Sarah Lennox, 1740–1832 (London, 1994), p. 122.
121. Ibid.
122. Walpole to Montagu, 22 January 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, IX, p. 335.
123. Tillyard, Aristocrats, p. 126.
124. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 38.
125. Ibid., pp. 39, 39n.
126. Ilchester and Stavordale (eds), Lady Sarah Lennox, p. 28.
127. Ibid.
128. Ibid., p. 102.
129. Ibid., p. 47.
130. Ibid., pp. 102–03.
131. Ibid., p. 107.
132. Ibid., pp. 104–05.
133. Ibid., p. 105.
134. Ibid., p. 94.
Chapter 4 – The Right Wife
1. Horace Walpole to Horace Mann, 28 October 1760, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXI, p. 442.
2. Horace Walpole to Montagu, 13 November 1760, ibid., IX, 9, p. 320.
3. Jeremy Black, George II: Puppet of the Politicians? (Exeter, 2007), p. 253.
4. Waldegrave, Memoirs, p. 7.
5. Black, George II, p. 254.
6. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 17n.
7. Ibid., p. 40.
8. Dodington, Political Journal, p. 319.
9. Romney Sedgwick, ‘The Marriage of George III’, History Today, 10, 6 (June 1960), p. 372.
10. Ibid.
11. Olwen Hedley, Queen Charlotte (London, 1975), p. 9.
12. Sedgwick, ‘Marriage of George III’, p. 373.
13. Ibid., p. 374.
14. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 53.
15. Ibid., p. 54.
16. Ibid., p. 55.
17. Lucille Iremonger, Love and the Princesses (London, 1958), p. 43.
18. Percy Fitzgerald, The Good Queen Charlotte (London, 1899), p. 14.
19. Ibid.
20. John Watkins, Memoirs of Her Most Excellent Majesty Sophia Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain (London, 1819), p. 30.
21. A term whose meaning of ‘female intellectual’ came into use around this time, in the middle of the eighteenth century. It originates in the fact that instead of formal black stockings, blue stockings were sometimes worn (by men) at literary assemblies in London hosted by society ladies; other women attending became known as ‘bluestockings’.
22. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 29.
23. Ibid., p. 28.
24. Ibid., p. 12.
25. Jesse, Life and Reign of George III, I, p. 88.
26. Walter Sichel (ed.), The Glenbervie Journals (London, 1910), pp. 119–20.
27. Sedgwick, ‘Marriage of George III’, p. 376.
28. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 14.
29. Jesse, Life and Reign of George III, I, p. 94.
30. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 32.
31. Ibid., p. 36.
32. Ibid., pp. 30–31.
33. Ibid., p. 28.
34. Horace Walpole to George Montagu, 10 July 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, IX, p. 376.
35. Fitzgerald, Good Queen Charlotte, p. 22.
36. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 56.
37. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 32.
38. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 58.
39. Horace Walpole to George Montagu, 22 July 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, IX, p. 378.
40. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 28.
41. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 19.
42. Ibid., p. 39.
43. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 38. Horace Walpole to the Earl of Strafford, no date (summer 1761), Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXV, p. 309.
44. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 40.
45. Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway, 9 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 115.
46. Horace Walpole to the Earl of Strafford, no date, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXV, p. 309.
47. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 41.
48. Doran, Lives of the Queens of England, II, p. 14.
49. Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway, 9 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 115.
50. Ibid.
51. Horace Walpole to Horace Mann, 9 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, V, p. 359.
52. Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway, 9 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 115.
53. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 44.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid., p. 46.
56. Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway, 9 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 117.
57. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 32.
58. Horace Walpole to Horace Mann, 10 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXI, p. 528.
59. Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway, 9 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 115.
60. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 32.
61. Ibid., p. 34.
62. Ibid.
63. Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway, 9 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 115.
64. Horace Walpole to George Montagu, 24 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, IX, p. 386.
65. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 51.
66. Horace Walpole to George Montagu, 24 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, IX, p. 386.
67. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 52.
68. Peter Quennell (ed.), Memoirs of William Hickey (London, 1975), p. 18.
69. Ibid., pp. 18–19.
70. Horace Walpole to H. S. Conway, 25 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 119.
71. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 37.
72. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 53.
73. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 62.
Chapter 5 – A Modern Marriage
1. Francis Bickley (ed.), The Diaries of Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie (2 vols, London, 1928,), II, p. 81.
2. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV, p. 18.
3. Home (ed.), Coke, III, p. 52.
4. Walpole to H. S. Conway, 16 June 1768, quoted in Dictionary of National Biography.
5. Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (London, 2009), p. 82.
6. Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage (London, 1977), p. 218.
7. Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter (London, 1998), p. 40.
8. Elizabeth Anson and Florence Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton at Court and Home from Letters and Diaries (London, 1925), p. 280.
9. Stone, Family, Sex and Marriage, p. 219.
10. Vickery, Behind Closed Doors, p. 147.
11. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 62.
12. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 17.
13. Ibid., p. 43.
14. Stone, Family, Sex and Marriage, p. 220.
15. Horace Walpole to the Countess of Ailesbury, 27 September 1761, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 124.
16. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 41.
17. Ibid., p. 43.
18. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 132n.
19. Ibid., p. 125.
20. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 45.
21. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 126.
22. Home (ed.), Coke, III, p. 242.
23. Horace Walpole to George Montagu, 25 May 1762, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, X, p. 33.
24. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 71.
25. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 93.
26. Ibid., p. 101.
27. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, pp. 83–84.
28. Emily Climenson (ed.), Passages from the Diaries of Mrs Philip Lybbe Powys (London, 1899), p. 116.
29. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, pp. 78–79.
30. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 71.
31. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 71.
32. Ibid., p. 68.
33. Ibid., p. 105.
34. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 79.
35. Jesse, Life and Reign of George III, I, p. 147.
36. Hibbert, George III, p. 89.
37. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. lxi.
38. Ibid., p. 196.
39. Ibid., p. 166.
40. Jesse, Life and Reign of George III, I, p. 134.
41. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, pp. 255–56.
42. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 196.
43. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 208.
44. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 15.
45. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 193.
46. Horace Walpole to the Earl of Hertford, 29 December 1763, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 272.
47. Francis A. Steuart (ed.), The Last Journals of Horace Walpole (2 vols, London, 1910), II, pp. 64–65.
48. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, II, p. 5.
49. Earl of Malmesbury (ed.), The Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury (3 vols, London, 1844), III, pp. 154–55.
50. Home (ed.), Coke, III, p. 65.
51. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 43.
52. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 22 April 1813, in William Harcourt (ed.), The Harcourt Papers (14 vols, privately printed, 1880–1905), VI.
53. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 65.
54. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 22 April 1813, Harcourt Papers, VI.
55. Mrs Papendiek, Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte, ed. Mrs V. Delves Broughton (2 vols, London, 1887), I, p. 14.
56. Ibid., p. 17.
57. Ibid.
58. Horace Walpole to the Earl of Hertford, 27 August 1764, Yale Edition of Walpole’s Correspondence, XXXVIII, p. 428.
59. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 15.
60. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 79.
61. Mrs Harcourt, Diary of the Court of King George III, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, XIII (London, 1871), p. 43.
62. Ibid., pp. 44–45.
63. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 47.
64. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 99.
65. Harcourt, Court of King George, pp. 45–46.
66. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 62.
Chapter 6 – Fruitful
1. Paget Toynbee (ed.), The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Oxford (16 vols, Oxford, 1903–05), V, p. 106.
2. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 68.
3. Vickery, Gentleman’s Daughter, p. 98.
4. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 68.
5. Vickery, Gentleman’s Daughter, p. 95.
6. Wendy Moore, The Knife Man (London, 2005). This is the fullest account of William Hunter’s career.
7. William Hunter, ‘Journal of Attendance on Her Majesty Queen Charlotte as Physician Extraordinary’, p. 7, Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow.
8. Ibid., pp. 11–12.
9. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 48.
10. Hunter, ‘Journal’, p. 12.
11. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 48.
12. Hunter, ‘Journal’, p. 14.
13. Ibid., pp. 23–25.
14. Sedgwick (ed.), Letters, p. 134.
15. Hunter, ‘Journal’, pp. 32–33.
16. Ibid., pp. 38–39.
17. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 19 March 1776, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
18. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 29 August 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
19. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. 58.
20. Ibid., p. 54.
21. Ibid., p. 402.
22. Ibid., p. 414.
23. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 31 August 1807, Harcourt Ms., Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
24. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 105.
25. Randolph Trumbach, The Rise of the Egalitarian Family (New York, 1978), p. 186.
26. Tillyard, Aristocrats, p. 244.
27. Jill Shefrin, Such Constant Affectionate Care (Los Angeles, 2003), p. 12.
28. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, no date (1776), Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
29. Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (London, 1797), p. 363.
30. Tillyard, Aristocrats, p. 233.
31. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 46.
32. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. 243.
33. Christopher Lloyd, ‘King, Queen and Family’, in Jane Roberts (ed.), George III and Queen Charlotte: Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste (London, 2004), p. 28.
34. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, I, p. 227.
35. Mme D’Arblay, Diary and Letters of Mme D’Arblay, ed. Charlotte Barrett (4 vols, London, 1854), II, p. 40.
36. Mrs Delany, The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany, ed. Lady Llanover (3 vols, London, 1861), II, p. 473.
37. Ibid., III, p. 308.
38. Schefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 40.
39. Vickery, Gentleman’s Daughter, p. 123.
40. Anon., George III: His Court and Family (2 vols, London, 1824), I, p. 422.
41. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 119.
42. Dorothy Margaret Stuart, The Daughters of George III (London, 1939), p. 205.
43. Watkins, Memoirs of Sophia Charlotte, p. 189.
44. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 3.
45. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 97.
46. Home (ed.), Coke, IV, p. 103.
47. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 47.
Chapter 7 – Private Lives
1. Walpole to H. S. Conway, 5 July 1740, quoted in Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 30.
2. Ibid.
3. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 13.
4. Diary of Lady Charlotte Finch, 22 July 1765, DG7, Leicester Record Office.
5. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 44.
6. Ibid.
7. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 41.
8. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 63.
9. A. Aspinall (ed.), The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770–1812 (8 vols, Oxford, 1963–71), I, p. 4.
10. Home (ed.), Coke, IV, p. 378.
11. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 600.
12. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 48.
13. Diary of Lady Finch, 1 March 1765, DG7, Leicester Record Office.
14. Home (ed.), Coke, II, p. 205.
15. Ibid., p. 387.
16. Ibid., p. 435.
17. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 196.
18. Ibid., p. 195.
19. Ibid., p. 205.
20. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 111.
21. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV, p. 271.
22. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 111.
23. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV,p. 271.
24. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 49.
25. Ibid., p. 52.
26. Ibid., p. 77.
27. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 95.
28. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 114.
29. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, pp. 74, 49.
30. Ibid., pp. 93–94.
31. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 18 May 1776, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
32. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 20 July 1777, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
33. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 9 July 1776, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
34. Roberts (ed.), George III and Queen Charlotte, p. 133.
35. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 6 July 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
36. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 23 July 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
37. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 6 July 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
38. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 117.
39. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 20 July 1776, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
40. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 49.
41. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 2 September 1798, Harcourt Ms.
42. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 114.
43. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 20 January 1776, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
44. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 29 December 1776 and 28 April and 13 June 1777, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
45. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 5 March 1776, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
46. Ibid.
47. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 18 May 1778, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
48. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 115.
49. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 6 September 1780, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 14 January 1780, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
53. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 23 June 1780, Mary Hamilton Ms., John Rylands Library, University of Manchester.
54. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 2 May 1777, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
55. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 17 October 1778, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
56. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 114.
Chapter 8 – A Sentimental Education
1. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, pp. 11–12.
2. Watkins, Memoirs of Sophia Charlotte, p. 238.
3. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 9 July 1782, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
4. Flora Fraser, Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III (London, 2004), p. 36.
5. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 4.
6. Diary of Lady Finch, 10 November 1764, DG7, Leicester Record Office.
7. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 57.
8. Home (ed.), Coke, II, p. 363.
9. Ibid., III, p. 81.
10. Ibid., I, p. 30.
11. Ibid., IV, p. 430.
12. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, pp. 11–12.
13. Steven Parissien, George IV: The Grand Entertainment (London, 2001), p. 20.
14. Augusta Murray, Recollections (London, 1868), p. 69.
15. Hibbert, George III, p. 101.
16. A. Aspinall (ed.), The Later Correspondence of George III (5 vols, Cambridge, 1966–70), I, p. xvi.
17. Ibid., p. 273.
18. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 62.
19. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 5.
20. Bullion, ‘George, Be a King!’, p. 189n.
21. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 5.
22. Bullion, ‘George, Be a King!’, p. 189n.
23. Ibid., p. 191n.
24. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 5.
25. Bullion, ‘George, Be A King!’, p. 191n.
26. Home (ed.), Coke, IV, p. 178.
27. Watkins, Memoirs of Sophia Charlotte, p. 251.
28. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. 30n.
29. Watkins, Memoirs of Sophia Charlotte, p. 250.
30. Home (ed.), Coke, IV, pp. 180–81.
31. Hibbert, George III, p. 101.
32. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 196.
33. Parissien, George IV, p. 21.
34. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 33.
35. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, II, p. 124.
36. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 33.
37. Home (ed.), Coke, II, p. 205.
38. Parissien, George IV, p. 24.
39. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 132.
40. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, pp. 83–84.
41. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 6.
42. Ibid., p. 18.
43. Ibid., p. 26.
44. Ibid., p. 28.
45. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 1 June 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
46. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 3 October 1780, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
47. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 41n.
48. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 16.
49. Lady Louisa Stuart, The Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart, ed. R. Brimley Johnson (London, 1926), p. 212.
50. Clarissa Campbell Orr, ‘Queen Charlotte, Scientific Queen’, in Clarissa Campbell Orr (ed.), Queenship in Britain 1660–1837 (Manchester, 2002), p. 250. This essay contains by far the fullest and most illuminating account of the Harcourt family and their milieu.
51. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, II, pp. 370–71.
52. Elizabeth, Countess Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, Harcourt Papers, IV, p. 77.
53. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 50.
54. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 77.
55. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 24.
56. Ibid., p. 209.
57. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.
58. Campbell Orr, ‘Scientific Queen’, p. 236.
59. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 6 July 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
60. Campbell Orr, ‘Scientific Queen’, pp. 253, 64n.
61. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 9 July 1782, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
62. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.
63. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 6 September 1779, Hamilton Ms.
64. Home (ed.), Coke, II, p. 247.
65. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 53.
66. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 97.
67. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 91.
68. Home (ed.), Coke, III, p. 258.
69. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 56.
70. Home (ed.), Coke, III, p. 291.
71. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 56.
72. Home (ed.), Coke, IV, p. 418.
73. Princess Augusta to Mrs Hamilton, 28 November 1777, Hamilton Ms.
74. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 264.
75. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 50.
76. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 9 July 1782, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
77. Watkins, Memoirs of Sophia Charlotte, p. 263.
78. Ibid., p. 319.
79. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, II, p. 55.
80. Ibid., p. 45.
81. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 110.
82. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 50.
83. Ibid., p. 55.
84. Ibid., p. 60.
85. Ibid., p. 52.
86. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 20 August 1780, Hamilton Ms.
87. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 78.
88. Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth to Mary Hamilton, throughout 1777, Hamilton Ms.
89. Princess Augusta to Mary Hamilton, no date, Hamilton Ms.
90. Ibid.
91. Princess Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 14 August 1784, Hamilton Ms.
92. Princess Royal to Mary Hamilton, no date (1777), 13 January 1778, Hamilton Ms.
93. Princess Royal to Mary Hamilton, 3 January 1778, Hamilton Ms.
94. Princess Royal to Mary Hamilton 1 and 3 February 1778, Hamilton Ms.
95. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 11 April 1777, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
96. Fraser, Princesses, p. 50.
97. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 20 July 1777, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
98. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 77.
99. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 32.
100. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, no date (1780), Hamilton Ms.
101. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 24 November 1783, Hamilton Ms.
102. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 52.
103. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 20 June 1780, Hamilton Ms.
104. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 28 March 1780, Hamilton Ms.
105. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, no date, Hamilton Ms.
106. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 77.
107. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 25 June 1781, Hamilton Ms.
108. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 193.
109. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 13 June 1783, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
110. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, no date (1780), Hamilton Ms.
Chapter 9 – Numberless Trials
1. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 33.
2. Ibid.
3. Black, George III, p. 115.
4. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV, p. 143.
5. Wraxall, Historical Memoirs, I, p. 37.
6. John Cannon, Lord North: The Noble Lord in the Blue Ribbon (London, 1970), pp. 7, 9.
7. John Fortescue, The Correspondence of King George III (6 vols, London, 1927), IV, p. 220.
8. Ibid., V, p. 62.
9. Hibbert, George III, p. 157.
10. Ibid., p. 145.
11. Ibid., p. 143.
12. Black, George III, p. 225.
13. Hibbert, George III, p. 158.
14. Cannon, Lord North, p. 25.
15. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, no date, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
16. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 1 June 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
17. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xvii.
18. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 29 February 1780, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
19. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xvii.
20. Hibbert, George III, p. 162.
21. Black, George III, p. 247.
22. Ibid., p. 101.
23. Hibbert, George III, p. 233.
24. Steuart (ed.), Last Journals of Horace Walpole, II, p. 496.
25. Hibbert, George III, p. 233.
26. Steuart (ed.), Last Journals of Horace Walpole, II, p. 496.
27. Hibbert, George III, p. 234.
28. Black, George III, p. 114.
29. Hibbert, George III, p. 164.
30. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 104.
31. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 30 May 1782, Hamilton Ms.
32. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 3 July 1782, Hamilton Ms.
33. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 17 July 1782, Hamilton Ms.
34. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 22 August 1782, Hamilton Ms.
35. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 27 August 1782, Hamilton Ms.
36. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 22 August 1782, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
37. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 24 August 1782, Hamilton Ms.
38. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 271.
39. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 23 April 1783, Hamilton Ms.
40. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 26 April 1783, Hamilton Ms.
41. E. Sorell to Mary Hamilton, 4 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
42. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 4 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
43. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 270.
44. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 5 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
45. Miss Planta to Mary Hamilton, 5 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
46. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 108.
47. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 5 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
48. Queen Charlotte to Lady Pembroke, 9 July 1785, Papers of the Earls of Pembroke, 2057/F4/47, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office.
49. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 108n.
50. Hibbert, George III, p. 99.
51. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 108n.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid., pp. 66–68.
54. Ibid., p. 72.
55. Ibid., p. 60.
56. Ibid., p. 73.
57. Ibid., p. 76.
58. Ibid., p. 79.
59. Ibid., p. 134.
60. Ibid., p. 86.
61. Christopher Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales (London, 1973), p. 32.
62. Ibid., pp. 34–35.
63. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 77.
64. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 138.
65. Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales, p. 39.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid., p. 40.
68. Hibbert, George III, p. 249.
69. Ibid.
70. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 73.
71. Ibid., p. 148.
72. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xxii.
73. Ibid., p. xviii.
74. Ibid., p. 107.
75. Ibid., p. xviii.
76. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 153.
77. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 120.
78. Ibid., p. 175.
79. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, pp. 220–21.
80. Ibid., p. 330.
81. Steuart (ed.), Last Journals of Horace Walpole, II, p. 529.
Chapter 10 – Great Expectations
1. Campbell Orr, ‘Scientific Queen’, p. 255.
2. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 213.
3. Lady Harcourt, Harcourt Papers, VI. Note made by Lady Harcourt attached to the voluminous collected correspondence from Princess Elizabeth.
4. Princess Elizabeth to Lord Harcourt, 4 December 1796, Harcourt Papers, VI.
5. George III to Lord Harcourt, 30 March and 1 April 1796, Harcourt Papers, VI.
6. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 78.
7. Queen Charlotte to Lord Harcourt, 17 December 1786, Harcourt Papers, VI.
8. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 27 September 1795, Harcourt Papers, VI.
9. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 5 April 1789, Harcourt Papers, VI.
10. Queen Charlotte to Lord Harcourt, 9 June 1793, Harcourt Papers, VI.
11. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 15 September 1784, Harcourt Papers, VI.
12. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, September 1785, Harcourt Papers, VI.
13. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, September 1785, Harcourt Papers, VI.
14. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 19 September 1785, Harcourt Ms.
15. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 7 June 1781, Hamilton Ms.
16. Hester Davenport, Faithful Handmaid; Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III (London, 2000), p. 17.
17. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 10.
18. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, III, pp. 286–87.
19. Ibid., p. 308.
20. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 446.
21. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 66.
22. Ibid., p. 28.
23. Ibid., p. 42.
24. Ibid., p. 297.
25. Ibid., p. 63.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., p. 76.
28. Ibid., p. 87.
29. Ibid., pp. 196–97.
30. Ibid., p. 366.
31. Ibid., p. 90.
32. Ibid., p. 91.
33. Ibid., p. 186.
34. Ibid., p. 372.
35. Ibid., p. 205.
36. Ibid., p. 42.
37. Ibid., p. 196.
38. Ibid., p. 258.
39. Ibid., p. 49.
40. Ibid., p. 48.
41. Ibid., p. 248
42. Ibid., p. 90.
43. Ibid., p. 164.
44. Ibid., p. 299.
45. Ibid., p. 231.
46. Ibid., p. 212.
47. Ibid., p. 65.
48. Ibid., p. 98.
49. Ibid., p. 99.
50. Ibid., p. 92.
51. Ibid., p. 235.
52. Ibid., p. 227
53. Ibid., pp. 193–94.
54. Ibid., p. 277.
55. Ibid., p. 94.
56. Ibid., p. 91.
57. Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (2 vols, London, 1969), p. 36.
58. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 3 October 1792, Harcourt Papers, VI.
59. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, III, p. 317.
60. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 106.
61. Princess Elizabeth to Lord Harcourt, 12 November 1797, Harcourt Papers, VI.
62. Philip Yorke (ed.), Letters of Princess Elizabeth of England (London, 1898), p. 143.
63. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 5 July 1794, Harcourt Papers, VI.
64. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 49.
65. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 186.
66. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 73.
67. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 342.
68. Princess Augusta to Lord Harcourt, 5 November 1802, Harcourt Papes, VI.
69. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, pp. xi, xin.
70. E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London, 1963), pp. 173–74.
71. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, IV, pp. 60–61.
72. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xiv.
73. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 81.
74. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 274n.
75. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, IV, p. 38.
76. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 35.
77. Susan Buchan, Lady Louisa Stuart (London, 1932), p. 196.
78. Ibid.; Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xiv.
79. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 229.
80. Ibid., p. 229.
81. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 28.
82. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 349n.
83. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, III, p. 386.
84. Fraser, Princesses, p. 99.
85. Ibid., pp. 96–97.
86. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 41.
87. Ibid., III, p. 242.
88. Davenport, Faithful Handmaid, p. 69.
89. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV, pp. 272, 272n.
90. John Brooke, King George III (London, 1972), p. 434.
91. Ibid., p. 439.
92. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. 94.
93. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV, pp. 103–04.
94. Ibid., p. 176.
95. Steuart (ed.), Last Journals of Horace Walpole, II, p. 132.
96. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. xcvii.
97. Brooke, King George III, pp. 446–47.
98. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 339n.
99. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 39.
100. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, III, p. 154.
101. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 1 July 1783, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
102. Fraser, Princesses, p. 79.
103. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, III, p. 160.
104. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 40.
105. Ibid., p. 54.
106. Ibid., p. 40.
107. Ibid., p. 38.
108. Charlotte, Queen of Würtemberg to Lady Harcourt, 14 March 1823, Harcourt Ms.
109. William S. Childe-Pemberton, The Romance of Princess Amelia (New York, 1911), p. 23.
110. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 63.
111. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. 33.
112. Tillyard, Royal Affair, p. 269.
113. Hibbert, George III, p. 175.
114. Brooke, King George III, p. 430.
115. Ibid., p. 426.
116. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 20 July 1776, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
117. Flora Fraser, The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline (London, 1996), p. 15.
118. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, I, p. 188.
119. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 55.
120. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 2 September 1798, Harcourt Ms.
121. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 20
Chapter 11 – An Intellectual Malady
1. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 593.
2. Ibid., III, p. 171.
3. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 378n.
4. Ibid.
5. Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter, George III and the Mad-Business (London, 1969), p. 6.
6. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 557.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid, p. 559.
9. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 7.
10. Hibbert, George III, p. 256.
11. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 11.
12. William Auckland, Journal and Correspondence (2 vols, London, 1861), II, p. 226.
13. Hibbert, George III, p. 255.
14. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 9.
15. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, pp. 25–26.
16. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 390.
17. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 10.
18. Ibid., p. 11.
19. Sir Gilbert Elliot, Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto, 1751 to 1806 (3 vols, London, 1874), I, p. 228.
20. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, pp. 14–15.
21. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 49.
22. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 396.
23. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 12.
24. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, pp. 16–17.
25. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 397.
26. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 14.
27. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 17.
28. F. McKno Bladon (ed.), The Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville (London, 1930), p. 79.
29. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 50.
30. Ibid.
31. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 14.
32. Ibid., p. 15.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., p. 16.
35. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 19.
36. Ibid., p. 20.
37. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 17.
38. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 21.
39. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 18.
40. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 142.
41. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, pp. 52–53.
42. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 20.
43. Ibid., p. 21
44. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 54.
45. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 21.
46. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 56.
47. Ibid., pp. 57–58.
48. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 22.
49. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 59.
50. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, pp. 23–24.
51. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, pp. 60–61.
52. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 25.
53. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 62.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid., p. 63.
56. Ibid., p. 65.
57. Bland Burges letters, ff. 80, 87, quoted in Timothy J. Peters and Allan Beveridge, ‘The Madness of King George III: A Psychiatric Reassessment’, History of Psychiatry 21 (1)(2010), p. 24.
58. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 25.
59. Ibid., p. 26.
60. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 66.
61. Ibid.
62. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 28.
63. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 67.
64. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 233.
65. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 29.
66. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 28.
67. Ibid., p. 30.
68. Ibid., p. 31.
69. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 230.
70. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 79.
71. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 233.
72. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 30.
73. Ibid., p. 4.
74. Timothy J. Peters and D. Wilkinson, ‘King George III and Porphyria: A Clinical Re-examination of the Historical Evidence’, History of Psychiatry 21 (1)(2010), pp. 3–19.
75. Peters and Beveridge, ‘The Madness of King George III’, p. 20.
76. Ibid., p. 31.
77. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 77.
78. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 81.
79. Ibid., p. 82.
80. Ibid., p. 83.
81. Ibid., p. 84.
82. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 87.
83. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 86.
84. Ibid.
85. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 54.
86. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 89.
87. Ibid., p. 87.
88. Ibid., p. 88.
89. Ibid., p. 90.
90. Ibid., p. 96.
91. Ibid., p. 92.
92. Auckland, Journal and Correspondence, II, p. 244.
93. Ibid., p. 242.
94. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 101.
95. Ibid., p. 94.
96. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 42.
97. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 102.
98. Ibid., p. 93.
99. Letter from Mrs Harcourt to Lady Harcourt in Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, pp. 58–59.
100. Ibid., p. 60.
101. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 98.
102. Ibid., p. 96.
103. Letter from General Harcourt in Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 61.
104. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 104.
105. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 239.
106. Letter from Mrs Harcourt in Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, pp. 62–63.
107. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 100.
108. Ibid., p. 102.
109. Letter from Mrs Harcourt in Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 61.
110. Ibid., p. 75.
111. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 105.
112. Ibid., p. 106.
113. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 107.
114. Ibid., p. 109
115. Ibid., pp. 110–11.
116. Ibid., p. 112.
117. Ibid., p. 113.
118. Ibid., p. 114.
119. Ibid., p. 117.
120. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 111.
121. Ibid., p. 114.
122. Ibid., p. 112.
123. Auckland, Journal and Correspondence, II, p. 256.
124. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 118.
125. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, pp. 118–19.
126. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 53.
127. Ibid.
128. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 172.
129. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, pp. 120–21.
130. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 57.
131. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 112.
132. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 32.
133. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 152.
134. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, pp. 54–55.
135. Ibid., p. 34.
136. Auckland, Journal and Correspondence, II, p. 245.
137. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 252.
138. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 149.
139. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 123.
140. Ibid., p. 127.
141. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 259.
142. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 129.
143. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 166.
144. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 123.
145. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 73.
146. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 146.
147. Ibid., pp. 126, 146.
148. Ibid., p.127.
149. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 65.
150. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 129.
151. Ibid., p.133.
152. Ibid., p.138.
153. Ibid., p. 134
154. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 74.
155. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 162.
156. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 246.
157. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 74.
158. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 139.
159. Ibid., p.142.
160. Ibid., p. 161.
161. Ibid., p. 165.
162. Ibid., p. 162.
163. Ibid., p. 169.
164. Ibid., pp. 170–71.
165. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 129.
166. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 175.
167. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 137.
168. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 175.
169. Ibid., pp. 187, 189, 191, 199.
170. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 203.
171. Ibid., p. 196.
172. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 201.
173. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, pp. 152–55.
174. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 205.
175. Ibid., p. 206.
176. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 221.
177. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 209.
178. Ibid., p. 213.
179. Ibid., p. 219.
180. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 244.
181. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, pp. 83–84.
182. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 7.
183. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 86.
184. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 237.
185. Harcourt (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence of the Rt Hon. George Rose, I, p. 97.
186. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 4.
187. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 274.
188. Harcourt, Court of King George, pp. 11–12.
189. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 92.
190. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 244.
191. Harcourt, Court of King George, pp. 12–13.
192. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 85.
193. Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales, p. 78.
194. Hibbert, George III, p. 270.
195. Ibid., p. 271.
196. Jesse, Life and Reign of George III, III, p. 78.
197. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 405.
198. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 274.
199. Ibid., p. 287.
200. Ibid., p. 289.
201. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 47.
202. Ibid., p. 10.
203. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, II, p. 133.
204. Ibid., p. 134.
205. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 8.
206. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 299.
207. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 405.
208. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 158.
209. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 403.
210. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 286.
211. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 254.
Chapter 12 – Three Weddings
1. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 187.
2. Ibid., p. 189.
3. Ibid., p. 191.
4. Ibid., p. 192.
5. Ibid., p. 194.
6. Ibid.
7. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 32.
8. Black, George III, p. 138.
9. Stanley Ayling, George III (London, 1972), p. 207.
10. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 298.
11. Eric Gillett (ed.), Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783–1820 (London, 1945), p. 35.
12. Ibid., p. 36.
13. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 346.
14. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 196.
15. Ibid., p. 197.
16. Gillett (ed.), Elizabeth Ham, p. 45.
17. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 202n.
18. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 332.
19. Ibid., p. 291.
20. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 202n.
21. McKno Bladon (ed.), Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, p. 304–05.
22. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 25 July 1800, Harcourt Ms.
23. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 464.
24. Ibid., p. 456.
25. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 181.
26. Ibid., p. 180.
27. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 178n.
28. Ibid.
29. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 567.
30. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 178n.
31. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 197.
32. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 23 December 1789, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
33. Harcourt, Court of King George, pp. 33–34.
34. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 23 December 1789, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
35. Brooke, King George III, p. 543.
36. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, pp. 418–19.
37. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 276.
38. Auckland, Journal and Correspondence, II, p. 211.
39. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, pp. 101–02.
40. Black, George III, p. 186.
41. Ibid., p. 357.
42. Brooke, King George III, p. 499.
43. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, pp. 102–03.
44. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 8 July 1795, Harcourt Ms.
45. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 79.
46. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 8 July 1795, Harcourt Ms.
47. Black, George III, p. 360.
48. Kenneth Baker, George III: A Life in Caricature (London, 2007), p. 130.
49. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Ms.
50. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 2 November 1795, Harcourt Ms.
51. Ibid.
52. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 25 July 1794, Harcourt Ms.
53. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, II, p. 217.
54. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 467.
55. Papers of James Bland Burges, Letter 132, 2 December 1794, Dep 10, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
56. Ibid.
57. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 162.
58. Ibid., p. 163.
59. Ibid., p. 170.
60. Ibid., p. 168.
61. Ibid., p. xxxviii.
62. Ibid., p. 339n.
63. Roger Fulford, Royal Dukes (London, 1933), p. 256.
64. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 410.
65. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, p. 150.
66. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 471n.
67. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, p. 423.
68. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 489.
69. Burges Papers, Letter 132, 2 December 1794.
70. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 354.
71. Ibid., p. 174.
72. Parissien, George IV, p. 63.
73. Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales, p. 50.
74. Ibid., p. 51.
75. Ibid., p. 50.
76. Ibid., p. 56.
77. Egerton Castle (ed.), The Jerningham Letters (2 vols, London, 1896), I, p. 33.
78. Parissien, George IV, p. 66.
79. Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales, p. 52.
80. Ibid., p. 68.
81. Parissien, George IV, p. 70.
82. Fraser, Unruly Queen, p. 41.
83. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, pp. 443, 453.
84. Parissien, George IV, p. 74.
85. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, pp. 174–75.
86. Ibid., III, p. 9.
87. Ibid., II, p. 452.
88. Ibid., p. 465
89. Ibid., p. 469.
90. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, III, p. 153.
91. Ibid., p. 165.
92. Ibid., p. 166.
93. Ibid., p. 170.
94. Ibid., p. 179.
95. Ibid., p. 166.
96. Ibid., p. 167.
97. Ibid., p. 165.
98. Ibid., p. 166.
99. Ibid., p. 167.
100. Ibid., p. 177.
101. Ibid., p. 168.
102. Ibid., p. 167.
103. Ibid., p. 196.
104. Ibid., p. 216.
105. Ibid., p. 211.
106. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 490.
107. Ibid., III, p. 53.
108. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, III, p. 218.
109. Ibid., p. 219.
110. Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales, p. 147.
111. Parissien, George IV, p. 76.
112. Ibid., p. 77.
113. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 123.
114. Ibid., p. 72.
115. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 29 August 1795, Harcourt Ms.
116. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, p. 451.
117. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 194.
118. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 60.
119. Ibid., p. 71.
120. Lady Charlotte Bury, The Diary of a Lady in Waiting, ed. Francis Steuart (2 vols, London, 1908), I, p. 19.
121. Ibid., p. 23.
122. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 198.
123. Castle (ed.), Jerningham Letters, I, p. 75.
124. Parissien, George IV, p. 73.
125. Fraser, Unruly Queen, p. 48.
126. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 23 May 1796, Harcourt Papers, VI.
127. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 243.
128. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, p. 535.
129. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 128.
130. Ibid., p. 149.
131. Ibid., p. 131.
132. Mrs Harcourt, ‘Anecdotes Relating to the Years 1792–1795’, Harcourt Papers, V, p. 620.
133. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 119.
134. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, p. xxxi.
135. Ibid., p. xxxii.
136. Ibid.
137. Sir John Hippesley to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.
138. Ibid.
139. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, IV, p. 36.
140. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, pp. xxxi, xxxin.
141. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 580.
142. Ibid., IV, p. 35.
143. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 346.
144. Fraser, Princesses, p. 163.
145. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, p. 591.
146. Ibid., p. 597.
147. Fraser, Princesses, p. 162.
148. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, pp. 588–89.
149. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 33.
150. Princess Royal to Lady Harcourt, 14 March 1823, Harcourt Ms.
151. Aspinall (ed.), George III, II, p. 596.
152. Ibid., III, p. 30.
153. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 421.
154. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 36.
155. Aspinall (ed.), George III, III, pp. 57–58.
156. Ibid., p. 58.
157. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 435.
158. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 27.
159. Aspinall (ed.), George III, III, p. 66.
160. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 266.
Chapter 13 – The Wrong Lovers
1. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, II, p. 216.
2. Ibid., p. 283.
3. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, p. 325.
4. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 213.
5. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, IV, p. 304.
6. Lloyd, ‘King, Queen and Family’, p. 66.
7. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 479.
8. Ibid., p. 480.
9. Ibid., p. 478.
10. Ibid., IV, p. 41.
11. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 157.
12. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 208.
13. A. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of the Princess Charlotte (London, 1949), p. 33.
14. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 390.
15. Lloyd, ‘King, Queen and Family’, p. 66.
16. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, IV, pp. 56–57.
17. Ibid., p. 66.
18. Ibid., pp. 90–91.
19. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 458.
20. Ibid., p. 460.
21. Ibid., p. 468.
22. Ibid., p. 476.
23. Ibid., IV, p. 36.
24. Ibid., pp. 92, 102.
25. Ibid., p. 548.
26. Ibid., p. 549.
27. Ibid., p. 227.
28. Ibid., p. 103.
29. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 146.
30. John Wardroper, Wicked Ernest (London, 2002), p. 22.
31. Ibid.
32. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 184.
33. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 388.
34. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 22; Princess Sophia to Lady Harcourt, 24 August 1794, Harcourt Papers, VI.
35. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 21.
36. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 2 August 1800, Harcourt Ms.
37. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 203.
38. Fraser, Princesses, p. 189.
39. Gillett (ed.), Elizabeth Ham, p. 47.
40. Ibid., pp. 47–48.
41. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 363.
42. George Thomas Landmann, Adventures and Recollections of Colonel Landmann (2 vols, London, 1852), II, p. 321.
43. Gillett (ed.), Elizabeth Ham, p. 48.
44. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 202.
45. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of the Princess Charlotte, p. 151.
46. Glenbervie Diary, 11 October 1811, National Library of Scotland, Acc 10505.
47. Ibid.
48. Charles Greville, The Greville Diaries, quoted in Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 204.
49. Charles Greville, quoted in Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 19.
50. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 464.
51. Fraser, Princesses, p. 192.
52. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 199.
53. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, pp. 94–95.
54. Glenbervie Diary, 11 October 1811.
55. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, no date (between July 1800 and October 1801), Harcourt Ms.
56. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 364.
57. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 201.
58. Princess Sophia to Lady Harcourt, 30 December 1800, Harcourt Papers, VI.
59. Fraser, Princesses, p. 216.
60. Ibid.
61. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 85.
62. Ibid., p. 85.
63. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, pp. 75–76.
64. Ibid., p. 95.
65. Ibid., I, p. 363.
66. Glenbervie Diary, 11 October 1811.
67. Gillett (ed.), Elizabeth Ham, p. 48.
68. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 154.
69. Harcourt, ‘Anecdotes’, Harcourt Papers, V, p. 414.
70. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, IV, p. 46.
71. Princess Sophia to Lady Harcourt, 24 August 1794, Harcourt Papers, VI.
72. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 484.
73. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 16.
74. Thompson, English Working Class, p. 155.
75. Black, George III, p. 366.
76. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 27.
77. Ibid., pp. 14, 10.
78. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, pp. 173, 185.
79. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 14.
80. Ibid., p. 14.
81. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 217.
82. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 18.
83. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 187.
84. Ibid., p. 352.
85. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 32.
86. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 208.
87. Ibid., p. 209.
88. Ibid.
89. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 211.
90. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 210.
91. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 126.
92. Ibid., p.127.
93. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 210.
94. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, pp. 224–25.
95. Ibid., p. 225.
96. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 43.
97. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 128.
98. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 43.
99. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 236.
100. Ibid., p. 231.
101. Ibid., p. 322.
102. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 286.
103. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, IV, pp. 493–95.
104. Ibid., I, p. 496.
105. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 3 March 1804, Harcourt Ms.
106. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 17.
107. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 319.
108. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 70.
109. Ibid., p. 113.
110. Ibid., p. 117.
111. Ibid., p. 17.
112. Ibid., p. 6.
113. Ibid., p. 90.
114. Ibid., pp. 6–7.
115. Ibid., p. 90.
116. Ibid., p. 114.
117. Ibid., p. 126n.
118. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, p. 55.
119. Ibid.
120. Ibid., I, p. 378.
121. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 216.
122. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 29.
123. Fraser, Princesses, p. 206.
124. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 90.
125. Ibid., p. 114.
126. Ibid.
127. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 337.
128. Fraser, Princesses, p. 210.
129. Ibid., p. 208.
130. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, pp. 160–61.
131. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 401.
132. Auckland, Journal and Correspondence, IV, pp. 212, 213.
133. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 6 November 1804, Harcourt Ms.
134. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 8 March 1805, Harcourt Ms.
135. Fraser, Princesses, p. 209.
136. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 223.
137. Ibid.
138. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.
139. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 6 December 1808, Harcourt Ms.
140. Queen Charlotte to Lord Harcourt, 5 December 1807, Harcourt Papers, VI.
141. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 23 July 1802, Harcourt Ms.
142. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 308 (11 September 1808).
143. Ibid., p. 309.
144. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 20 June 1808, Harcourt Ms.
145. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 18 June 1808, Harcourt Ms.
146. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 17 September 1807, Harcourt Ms.
147. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 20 June 1808, Harcourt Ms.
148. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 265.
149. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 23 July 1802, Harcourt Ms.
150. John Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 97.
151. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 243.
152. Ibid., VI, p. 323.
153. Ibid., p. 316 (25 September 1808).
154. Ibid.
155. Ibid., p. 323.
156. Ibid.
157. Ibid.
158. Ibid.
159. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 397.
160. Ibid.
161. Ibid.
162. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 10 December 1808, Harcourt Ms.
163. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 45.
164. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, pp. 53–54.
165. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, pp. 23–24.
166. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, pp. 61–62.
167. Ibid., pp. 66–67.
168. Ibid., p. 173.
169. Ibid.
170. Ibid., p. 73.
171. Fraser, Princesses, p. 233.
172. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, p. 94.
173. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 142.
174. Fraser, Princesses, p. 233.
175. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, p. 94.
176. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 173.
177. Ibid., p. 181.
178. Ibid., pp. 124–25.
179. Ibid., pp. 136–37.
180. Ibid., p. 138.
181. Ibid., pp. 146–47.
182. Ibid., pp. 148–49.
183. Ibid., pp. 177–78.
184. Ibid., p. 174.
185. Ibid., p. 175.
186. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 517.
187. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 200.
188. Ibid., p. 193.
189. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 412.
190. Aspinall (ed.), George III, V, p. 320.
191. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 422.
192. Aspinall (ed.), George III, V, p. 354.
193. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 441.
194. Ibid.
195. Ibid., p. 458.
196. Ibid., p. 452.
197. Aspinall (ed.), George III, V, p. 393.
198. Ibid., p. 414.
199. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, pp. 383–84.
200. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 356–57.
201. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 502.
202. Ibid., p. 516.
203. Aspinall (ed.), George III, V, p. 592.
204. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 48.
205. Aspinall (ed.) George III, V, p. 607.
206. Halford Papers, DG 24/822/4, Leicester Record Office.
207. Ibid.
208. Ibid.
209. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 222.
210. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 56.
211. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 225.
212. Ibid., p. 233.
213. Ibid., pp. 228–29.
214. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 242.
215. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 227.
216. Ibid., p. 260n.
217. Ibid., p. 249.
Chapter 14 – Established
1. Hibbert, George III, p. 391.
2. Ibid., pp. 390–91.
3. Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight (2 vols, London, 1861), I, pp. 174–75.
4. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 67n.
5. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 9 November 1810, Harcourt Papers, VI.
6. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 144.
7. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 67n.
8. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 146.
9. Princess Mary to Lady Harcourt, 2 December 1810, Harcourt Papers, VI.
10. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, December 1810, Harcourt Papers, VI.
11. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 154.
12. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 219.
13. Ibid., VIII, p. 386.
14. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 155.
15. Ibid., p. 157.
16. Ibid., pp. 157–58.
17. Ibid., p. 159.
18. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 68.
19. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 281.
20. Ibid., p. 282.
21. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, pp. 160–61.
22. Ibid., p. 162.
23. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 68n.
24. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 252.
25. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 16 November 1811, Harcourt Papers, VI.
26. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 223.
27. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, December 1810, Harcourt Papers, VI.
28. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 10 July 1812, Harcourt Ms.
29. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 251.
30. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 215.
31. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 251.
32. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 215–16.
33. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 10 July 1812, Harcourt Ms.
34. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 296.
35. Ibid., p. 299.
36. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 217.
37. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 252.
38. Ibid., p. 349.
39. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 12 February 1812, Harcourt Ms.
40. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 166.
41. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 99–100.
42. Ibid., pp. 100–01.
43. Ibid., p. 223.
44. Ibid., p. 222.
45. A. Aspinall (ed.), The Letters of King George IV: 1812 to 1830 (3 vols, Cambridge, 1938) I, p. 175.
46. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 175.
47. Ibid., p. 104.
48. Ibid., p. 105.
49. Ibid.
50. Ernest Taylor (ed.), The Taylor Papers (London, 1913), p. 78.
51. Ibid., p. 81.
52. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 37.
53. Princess Elizabeth to William, 3rd Lord Harcourt, 26 April 1812, Harcourt Ms.
54. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 110.
55. Ibid., p. 107.
56. Ibid., pp. 110–11.
57. Ibid., p. 109.
58. Ibid., p. 115.
59. Entry for Sir Brent Spencer, Dictionary of National Biography.
60. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 17 September 1807, Harcourt Ms.
61. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 28 September 1807, Harcourt Ms.
62. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 109.
63. Ibid., p. 111.
64. Ibid.
65. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 42.
66. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 88.
67. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 88.
68. Wardoper, Wicked Ernest, p. 88.
69. Ibid., p. 87.
70. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 289.
71. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 152.
72. Wardoper, Wicked Ernest, pp. 87–89.
73. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, I, p. 467.
74. Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales, p. 219.
75. George Thomas Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, Fifty Years of My Life (New York, 1876), p. 36.
76. Rose Weigall, A Brief Memoir of the Princess Charlotte of Wales (London, 1874), p. 34.
77. Ibid., p. 33.
78. Keppel, Fifty Years, p. 71.
79. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 38.
80. Keppel, Fifty Years, p. 53.
81. Ibid., p. 57.
82. Ibid., p. 47.
83. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 38.
84. Sichel (ed.), Glenbervie Journals, pp. 119–20 (21 October 1811).
85. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. xi.
86. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 101.
87. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 102.
88. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 186.
89. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. xv.
90. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 30.
91. Knight, Autobiography, I, p. 212.
92. Ibid., p. 213.
93. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 21.
94. Ibid., pp. xvi, 85.
95. Ibid., p. 6.
96. Ibid., p. 7.
97. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 24 October 1811, Harcourt Ms.
98. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 23.
99. Ibid., p. 33.
100. Ibid., p. 28.
101. Knight, Autobiography, I, p. 240.
102. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 126.
103. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 108.
104. Ibid., p. 231.
105. Ibid., p. 26.
106. Ibid., pp. 74–75.
107. Ibid., p. 82.
108. Ibid., p. 69.
109. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, I, p. 289.
110. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 87.
111. Ibid., p. 89.
112. Ibid., p. 92.
113. Ibid., p. 94.
114. Ibid., p. 95.
115. Ibid., pp. 95, 96.
116. Ibid., p. 96.
117. Ibid., pp. 117–18.
118. Ibid., p. xviii; Fraser, Unruly Queen, p. 247.
119. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, pp. 127–28.
120. Ibid., pp. 137–38.
121. Ibid., p. 140.
122. Ibid., p. 145.
123. Ibid., pp. 147, 148.
124. Ibid., p. 148.
125. Ibid., pp. 180–81.
126. Ibid., p. 155.
127. Ibid., p. 160.
128. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, I, p. 516.
129. Ibid., II, p. 30.
130. Ibid., p. 31.
131. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, pp. 191–92.
132. Ibid., p. 165.
133. Ibid., p. 180.
134. Ibid., p. 190.
135. Ibid., p. 224.
136. Ibid., p. 225.
137. Ibid., p. 242.
138. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 243.
139. Alison Plowden, Caroline and Charlotte (London, 2005), p. 253.
140. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 231.
141. Ibid., pp. 224–25.
142. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 203.
143. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, pp. 224–25.
144. Bury, Lady in Waiting, II, p. 81.
145. Fraser, Princesses, p. 294.
146. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 78.
147. Princess Elizabeth to Lord Harcourt, 20 June 1808, Harcourt Ms.
148. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 233.
149. Ibid., p. 229.
150. Princess Mary to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.
151. Ibid.
152. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 296.
153. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, pp. 245, 243.
154. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 249.
155. Princess Royal to Lady Harcourt, 1 April 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.
156. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, II, p. 171.
157. Ibid., p. 187.
158. Ibid., I, p. 423.
159. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 11 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.
160. Plowden, Caroline and Charlotte, p. 257.
161. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, II, p. 211.
162. Plowden, Caroline and Charlotte, p. 263.
163. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 8 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.
164. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 11 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.
165. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 11 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.
166. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 8 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.
167. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 13 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.
168. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 19 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.
169. Plowden, Caroline and Charlotte, p. 264.
170. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 22 January 1812, Harcourt Ms.
171. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 175.
172. Ibid., p. 176.
173. Ibid., pp. 178–79.
174. Ibid., p. 181.
175. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 180.
176. Ibid., p. 181.
177. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 212.
178. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 154.
179. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 182.
180. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 154.
181. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 182.
182. Ibid., pp. 178–79.
183. Yorke (ed.), Letters of Princess Elizabeth, p. 86.
184. Ibid.
185. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 185.
186. Knight, Autobiography, II, p. 139.
187. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 188.
188. Ibid., p. 185.
189. Ibid., p. 187.
190. Yorke (ed.), Letters of Princess Elizabeth, p. 94.
191. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 196, 187.
192. Yorke (ed.), Letters of Princess Elizabeth, p. 319.
193. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 191, 198.
194. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 264.
195. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, II, p. 184.
196. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 288.
197. Ibid., pp. 294–96.
198. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 123–24.
199. Ibid., p. 125.
200. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 296.
201. Ibid., p. 298.
202. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 9 September 1818, Harcourt Papers, VI. See also Yorke (ed.), Letters of Princess Elizabeth, p. 89.
203. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 298.
204. Ibid.
205. Princess Royal to Lady Harcourt, 1 April 1817, Harcourt Ms.
206. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 291.
207. Bury, Lady in Waiting, II, p. 92.
208. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 244.
209. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 294.
210. Ibid., p. 303.
211. Ibid., p. 304.
212. Princess Royal to Lady Harcourt, 22 March 1819, Harcourt Papers, VI.
213. Yorke (ed.), Letters of Princess Elizabeth, p. 88.
214. Anon., Court and Family, p. 434.
215. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 170.
216. Hibbert, George III, p. 407.
217. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 170.
218. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, II, p. 298.
219. Anon., Court and Family, p. 445.
220. Hibbert, George III, p. 410.
221. Black, George III, p. 410.
222. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 64.
223. Ibid.
224. Ibid., p. 66.
225. Ibid.