Index

Africa 48, 78

Alexander I, Tsar 77

Amelia, Princess 59

America 9–10, 12, 20, 21, 22, 48, 50

Arbuthnot, Harriet 69

Armitstead, Elizabeth 21

Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess 17

Augustus, Prince, Duke of Sussex 93

Austen, Jane 66

Austria 48, 77

Baring, Sir Thomas 70

Bird, Edward 71

Birmingham 49

Blackheath 53, 58, 59

Blücher, Field Marshal 77

Boehm, Mrs 78

Bolton, Charles Powlett, Duke of 40

Boston 9–10

Brighton 27, 33, 54, 83

Brighton Royal Pavilion 33, 54, 66, 70, 71–5, 91, 98

British Guiana 79

Bristol 49

British Museum 66

Brougham, Henry 76, 83, 84, 85

Brummell, Beau 68, 72

Brunswick 44, 86

Brussels 88

Buckingham House 8, 14

Buckingham Palace 64–5, 69, 70, 71–2, 77, 90, 91, 98

Burke, Edmund 37

Byron, Lord 65, 80

Canning, George 82, 92

Cape Colony 78

Carême, Antonin 74

Caribbean, the 49

Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of 37

Carlton House 17, 22, 30, 32, 38, 55, 57, 62–3, 66, 69, 70, 90, 91

Caroline, Queen 42, 43–7, 47–8, 52–3, 57–9, 83–94

Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark 10, 18, 86

Castle Howard 37

Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount 85

Ceylon 79

Charlotte, Princess of Wales 52, 53, 57–8, 75–6

Charlotte, Queen 3, 6–7, 8, 36, 46, 46–7, 86

China 50

Clarence House 77

Clarke, James Stanier 66

Conyngham, Elizabeth, Marchioness 75, 87, 91, 96

Copenhagen 10

Crace, John and Frederick 73

Croker, John Wilson 74

Crouch, Anna Maria 40

Cumberland House 19

Denmark 10, 18

Douglas, Sir John 58–9

Douglas, Lady Charlotte 58–9

Dover 77, 83

Dublin 87

Dunning, John 21

Edinburgh 89

Edward, Prince, Duke of Kent 76

Eldon, John Scott, Earl of 56

Elizabeth Charlotte of Bavaria, Princess Palatine 65

Elliott, Grace Dalrymple 26

Fenton, Lavinia 40

Finch, Lady Charlotte 9

Fitzherbert, Maria 29–34, 40, 41, 51, 53–4, 55–7, 63, 85, 97

Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Earl 37, 55

Fox, Charles James 20–2, 29, 34, 35–6, 39, 40, 55, 92

France 12, 19, 30, 31, 38–40, 48, 50, 51, 54–5, 55, 68, 76–8

Frederick, Prince, Duke of York 11–13, 14, 22, 36, 37, 43, 75

Frederick, Prince of Wales 4

Frederick William III, King of Prussia 77–8

George I, King 4

George II, King 4, 8

George III, King 3, 4, 6–8, 10–11, 12–13, 14, 15, 16–19, 21–3, 27, 30, 33, 34–7, 38, 39, 42, 44, 48, 51–2, 52–3, 55, 58–60, 61, 62–3, 83

George IV, King: birth 3; relationship with father 3, 4, 12–13, 15, 18–19, 22–3, 33, 38, 47, 58; status 3–4; lack of purpose 5–6; background 6–8; siblings 6; childhood 8; appearance 8–9, 13, 89–90; education 9, 11–12; upbringing 11–14, 24; as Prince of Wales 3–4, 4, 5–6, 11–23, 24–41, 43–7, 52–60; cartoonists’ portrayals 14; own establishment 14, 16–17; character 15, 15–16, 19, 24, 61; weight 16, 54, 68, 89, 90; attains majority 16–17; income 16–17, 34, 91; George III’s codes of behaviour 18–19; rebellion 19; political involvement 19–21; extravagance 22, 62–3; love life 24–7, 28; the Regency Crisis 34–7; private life 27–8; health 28–9, 90; marriage to Maria Fitzherbert 29–34, 40, 85; debts 31, 40, 62; finances 31, 33–4; drinking 37, 54; womanizing 37, 40–1, 45, 53–4; portrayal as A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion 38; and the French Revolution 39–40; breaks with Maria Fitzherbert 41–2; marriage to Caroline of Brunswick 42, 43–7; relationship with Caroline 46–7, 52–3, 57–8, 83–94; relationship with press 4–5, 47–8; correspondence 50–1; separation from Caroline 52–3; renews relationship with Mrs Fitzherbert 53–4; relationship with Princess Charlotte 57–8; appointed Regent 60; as Regent 3–4, 61–81; pension bill 63; patronage 63–4; interest in music 64–5; reading 65–6; clothing 67–8; habit of accumulation 68–9; Armoury 69; painting collection 70–1; death of Princess Charlotte 75–6; and the Peterloo Massacre 79–80; accession 83; reign 83–96; and Caroline’s trial 84–5; coronation 85; and death of Caroline 86–7; Irish tour 87–8; Wilkie portrait 89; expenses 91; and Catholic Relief Act 92–5, 98; health declines 95–6; death 3, 96–7; will 85, 97; obituary 3; funeral 97–8; legacy 98–9

Gillray, James 38

Glasgow 49

Goderich, Frederick John Robinson, Viscount 92

Godwin, William 80

Göttingen 89

Greenwich 45

Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron 55

Greville, Charles 74, 74–5, 82–3, 83, 90–1, 95–6, 98

Grey, Charles, Earl 55, 84, 99

Grosvenor, Richard, Earl 10

Halford, Sir Henry 97

Hamilton, Mary 24–5

Hanover 14–15, 88, 88–9, 93

Harris, James later Earl of Malmesbury) 15, 44–6

Harwich 86

Helsingør 10, 18

Henry, Prince, Duke of Cumberland 10–11, 19, 27

Hertford, Isabella Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of 53–4, 56, 63, 75

Hertford, Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marquess of 56

Hillisberg, Louise 54

Holdernesse, Robert Darcy, Earl of 11

Holland, Henry 54

Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Baroness 16, 55

Holland, Henry Vassall-Fox, Baron 29, 30, 55

Holyhead 86

Horton, Anne 19

Hotham, Colonel 31, 33

Howth 86–7

Hunter, Richard 35

India 49, 50, 78

Ireland 48–9, 51–2, 86, 87–8, 92–3

James II, King 66, 87

Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of 41, 46, 53–4

Johnson, Joseph 80

Jones, Robert 73

Jordan, Dorothy 76

Kensington Palace 8

Kew Palace 11–14, 15, 73

Knighton, Sir William 91, 96–7

Kronborg Castle 10, 18

Laeken 88

Lamb, Charles 4–5

Leipzig 77

Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Prince 75, 76

Lieven, Dorothea, Princess 65, 74

Liverpool 49

Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, Earl of 62, 78, 91, 92

London 6, 25, 37, 49, 63–4, 77, 80, 84–5, 90, 98

Louis XVI, King of France 39, 40, 55

Louis XVIII, King of France 77

Lunardi, Vincenzo 64

Macalpine, Ida 35

Malibran, Maria 96

Manchester 49

Massereene, Countess of 54

Mauritius 79

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Charles, Duke of 6

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Charles, Prince (later Duke) of 7, 8, 44

Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount 47

Metternich, Prince 74, 77

Meyer, Madame de 54

Moira, < Francis Rawdon-Hastings, > Earl of 55, 61

Montague House 58

Moscow 77

Napoleon 48, 65–6, 76–8

Nash, John 72–3

Nepal 78

North, Frederick, Lord 17–8, 21, 27

O’Connell, Daniel 87, 88, 92–3

Oldenburg, Grand Duchess Catherine of 77

Ord, James 32

Payne, Captain J. W. 37, 42

Peel, Robert 91–2

Perceval, Spencer 60, 61

Percy, Major < Henry > 78

Pergami, Bartolomeo 84

Peterloo Massacre 49, 79–80, 80–1, 81, 82

Pitt, William (the Younger) 22, 35–6, 40, 48, 49, 51–2, 55

Platov, Count Matvei 77

Priestley, Joseph 80

Prussia 48, 77

Rembrandt 70–1

Reynolds, Sir Joshua 70

Robinson, Mary 26–7

Robinson, Peter Frederick 54

Rossini, Gioachino 64–5

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 9, 12

Russia 77

St Albans 10

St James’s Palace 45–6, 96

St Lucia 79

Scotland 89, 90–1

Scott, Sir Walter 66, 81, 89

Seymour, Lady Horatia 55–6

Seymour, Mary 55–7

Sezincote House 73

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 63, 80–1

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 55

Slane Castle 87

Smythe, Mary Anne 32

Spain 77

Steen, Jan 71

Strelitz 6, 7

Sweden 77

Tobago 79

Trafalgar, Battle of 54

Trinidad 78–9

Turton, Dr John 29

Victoria, Queen 47, 76, 96

Warwick House 57

Waterloo, Battle of 48, 78, 88

Wellesley, Richard, Marquess 61

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 65, 69, 76, 85, 88, 91, 92, 92–5, 97, 97–8, 98

Wentworth Woodhouse 37

West, Benjamin 71

Wilberforce, William 40

Wilkie, David 71, 89

William, Prince, Duke of Gloucester 10

William III, King 87

William IV, King 75, 76, 98

William, Prince of Orange 75

Wilson, Harriette 54

Windsor Castle 3, 14, 15, 69–70, 70–1, 71–2, 98

Windsor Royal Lodge 90, 95–6

Woburn House 82

Wollstonecraft, Mary 80

Wordsworth, William 81

Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel 28, 41

Yarmouth, Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of 8

Yorkshire 49

Yorktown 21