Notes

FAMILY ABBREVIATIONS

George III, Queen Charlotte and their children are shown in bold

Adolphus: Prince Adolphus, seventh son of George III, later Duke of Cambridge

Amelia: Princess Amelia, sixth daughter of George III

Augusta: Princess Augusta, second daughter of George III

Augustus: Prince Augustus, sixth son of George III, later Duke of Sussex, husband of Lady Augusta Murray and of Lady Cecilia Buggin, Duchess of Inverness

Bertie: Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Dowager Princess of Leiningen: Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, widow of Prince Charles of Leiningen, later wife of Edward, Duke of Kent and mother of Queen Victoria

Dowager Princess of Wales: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales, widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of George III

Duchess of Brunswick: Augusta, formerly Hereditary Princess, wife of Charles, Duke of Brunswick, sister of George III and mother of Caroline, Princess of Wales

Duchess of Cambridge: Princess Augusta of Hesse, wife of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

Duchess of Kent: Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, widow of Prince Charles of Leiningen, wife of Edward, Duke of Kent and mother of Queen Victoria

Duke Charles: Prince/Duke Charles, later Grand Duke Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Charlotte’s brother

Duke Frederick: Frederick, Duke, formerly Hereditary Prince, later Elector and King of Württemberg, and husband of Royal

Duke of Gloucester: William Henry, first Duke of Gloucester and brother of George III, father of William Frederick, second Duke, and of Sophia Matilda

Edward: Prince Edward, fourth son of George III, later Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria

Elizabeth: Princess Elizabeth, third daughter of George III, later Hereditary Princess and Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg, wife of Fritz

Ernest: Prince Ernest, fifth son of George III, later Duke of Cumberland, and first King of Hanover

Frederick: Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, second son of George III

Fritz: Friedrich/Friedrich VI, Hereditary Prince, later Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, husband of Elizabeth

GIII: King George III, Elector of Hanover, husband of Queen Charlotte

GIV: King George IV, eldest son of George III, formerly George, Prince of Wales and Prince Regent

George: Prince George, later second Duke of Cambridge, only son of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

GP: George, Prince of Wales, eldest son of George III, later Prince Regent and George IV

Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: see Gussy

Grand Duke Charles: Grand Duke, formerly Duke Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Charlotte’s brother

Gussy: Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Hereditary Princess, later Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, elder daughter of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and wife of Friedrich Wilhelm, Hereditary Prince, later Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Hereditary Prince: Frederick, Hereditary Prince, later Duke, Elector and King of Württemberg, husband of Royal

Hereditary Princess: Augusta, later Duchess of Brunswick, wife of Charles, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, sister of George III and mother of Caroline, Princess of Wales

King Frederick: Frederick, King, formerly Hereditary Prince, Duke and Elector of Württemberg, husband of Royal

Leopold: Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, later King Leopold I of the Belgians, husband of Princess Charlotte, uncle of Queen Victoria

Mary: Princess Mary, fourth daughter of George III, later Duchess of Gloucester, wife of William Frederick

Mary Adelaide: Princess Mary Adelaide, younger daughter of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, later Duchess of Teck and mother of Queen Mary

PR: Prince Regent, eldest son of George III, formerly George, Prince of Wales and later King George IV, father of Princess Charlotte

Prince Albert: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, nephew of Leopold and Prince Consort of Queen Victoria

Princess Charlotte: Princess Charlotte of Wales, only child of George IV and Queen Caroline, when Prince and Princess of Wales, and first wife of Leopold

Princess of Wales: Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, wife of George, Prince of Wales and later Queen Caroline, mother of Princess Charlotte

Queen Charlotte: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of King George III

Queen Mary: Mary of Teck, daughter of Mary Adelaide and of the Duke of Teck, wife of King George V

Queen Victoria: Queen Victoria, formerly Princess Victoria of Kent, daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent and wife of Prince Albert

Royal: Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of George III, and later, as second wife of Frederick, first King of Württemberg, Hereditary Princess, Duchess, Electress and Queen of Württemberg

Sophia: Princess Sophia, fifth daughter of George III

Sophia Matilda: Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, daughter of William Henry, first Duke of Gloucester, sister-in-law of Mary

Victoria: Princess Victoria, only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, later Queen Victoria

WIV: William IV, third son of George III, formerly Prince William and Duke of Clarence

William: Prince William, third son of George III, later Duke of Clarence, then William IV, husband of Adelaide

William Frederick: Prince William Frederick of Gloucester, son of William Henry, first Duke of Gloucester, later second Duke of Gloucester, husband of Mary

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS

Add

Additional

BL

British Library

Col

Collection

Corr

Correspondence

Eg

Egerton

(Fr)

translated from French

GEO

Georgian Papers

(Ger)

translated from German

HMC

Historical Manuscripts Commission

LB

Letter Book

LC

Lord Chamberlain’s Papers

LRO

Leicestershire Record Office

LWL

Lewis Walpole Library

(M)

Microfilm

Ms(s)

Manuscript(s)

NYPL

New York Public Library

PML

Pierpont Morgan Library

PRO

Public Record Office

QYJ

Queen Victoria’s Journal

RA

Royal Archives

RC

Royal Collection

RCP

Royal College of Physicians

RL

Royal Library

RPC

Royal Photographic Collection

VIC

Victorian Papers

YCBA

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

CHAPTER 1: EARLY DAYS

‘princess’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 1, 59

‘understanding’. Greig, Diaries of a Duchess, 63

‘sons’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 1, 59

‘House’. LRO/DG7, Lady Charlotte Finch’s Journal, 29 September 1766

‘goose’. Cf Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 107

‘figure’. LRO/DG7/B0X 4953, Bundle 31, Henrietta Finch to Charlotte Finch, 11 August 1766

‘petticoats’. LRO/DG7/B0X 4953, Bundle 31, Lady Charlotte Finch to Lord Winchilsea, 26 September 1765

‘sometimes’. Finch, Burley-on-the-Hill, 1, 294

‘reflections’. Huish, George III, 1, 13

‘comical’, ‘her?’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 1, 30–1

‘jewels’. Climenson, Passages, 116–17

‘evening’. LRO/DG7/Box 4953, Bundle 31, Sophia Finch to Lord Winchilsea, 19 September 1766

‘away’. Greig, Diaries of a Duchess, 63

‘worse’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 1, 35

‘lodgings’. Ibid, 1, 67

‘lesson’. LRO/DG7, Lady Charlotte Finch’s Journal, 24 November 1766

‘covers’. PRO, LC 9/293

‘sea’. RA GEO/Add 21/101, Royal to Lady Charlotte Finch, 14 March 1805

‘noise’. Buckingham and Normanby, Works, 2, 223

‘coat’. LRO/DG7, Lady Charlotte Finch’s Journal, 19 January 1767

‘bed’. Ibid, 1766-7 passim; LRO/DG7, Box 4953, Bundle 50, Henrietta to Frances Finch, 5 June [1766]

‘abandoned’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 38, 434

‘disconcerted’. Ibid, 116–17

‘Ranelagh …’. Ibid, 127–8

‘parrots’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 9 January 1778

‘timidity’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 80

‘dead’. Finch, Burley-on-the-Hill, 286

‘Princes’. BL Add Ms 35839, £250, ‘Character of the Queen’, 1761

‘to her’. Ibid

‘see this’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 79

‘nothing’. Greig, Diaries of a Duchess, 51

‘Guido’. Millar, Later Georgian, 22

‘Tuscan’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 37, 69

‘daughter’. LRO/DG7, Lady Charlotte Finch’s Diary, 1766-7 passim

‘pretty’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 2, 44

‘to her’. Ibid, 401

‘family’. RA VIC/Y 67/8, Leopold to Queen Victoria, 1 October 1840

‘served up’. Huish, George III, 1, 326

‘health’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 2, 434

‘please them’. Ibid, 247

‘accent’. RA GEO/50177, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 31 January 1799

‘return’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 2, 326

‘forget them…’. RA GEO/50173, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 20 February 1798

superintendents. RA GEO/50171-2, RA GEO/50181, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 23 December 1797-20 February 1798, 9 November 1799

‘character’. RA GEO/15884-5, ‘Description of an entertainment … September 1769’

‘head’. Greig, Diaries of a Duchess, 93–5

‘thing’. RA GEO/50177, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 31 January 1799

‘sylph’. Greig, Diaries of a Duchess, 93–5

‘herself’. RA GEO/50181, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 9 November 1799

‘plain’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 2, 429

‘boughs’. Ibid, 387

‘unattended’. Ibid, 3, 114

‘access’. Watkins, Her Majesty, 591

‘prospect’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 23, 66

courtyard. Doran, Lives of the Queens, 2, 67

‘tired’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 3, 153

‘wall’, try her. Greig, Diaries of a Duchess, 145

‘unreasonably’, ‘ever was’. Home, Lady Mary Coke 3, 258

‘yours’. RA GEO/Add 15/8152, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, 6 November 1771

‘people’. RA GEO/Add 15/8154, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, [before 31 October] 1774

twins. HMC, Dartmouth, 443, GIII to Lord Dartmouth, 14 May 1804

‘Brunswick family’. RA GEO/50286, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 14 May 1801

CHAPTER 2: GROWING UP

‘infant’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 3, 439

‘hitherto’. RA GEO/36346, Queen Charlotte to GP, 12 August 1770

‘yourself. LRO/DG7, Box 4953, Bundle 31, Lord Winchilsea to Lady Charlotte Finch, July 1771

‘on them’. LRO/DG7, Box 4953, Bundle 31, Lady Juliana Penn to Lady Charlotte Finch, 5 August 1771

‘showy’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 2, 409

‘men’, ‘turn’. RA VIC/Y 171/81, Mary Campbell to Rebecca Fraser, Philadelphia, 1774

‘hour’. RA GEO/50195-6, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 16 March 1802

‘employment’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 4, 424

‘my sister’. RA GEO/Planta/6 (Fr), Elizabeth Planta to Lady Strathmore 14 July 1771

Christian. RA VIC/Y 171/81, Mary Campbell to Rebecca Fraser, Philadelphia, 1774

‘about them’. RA GEO/Add 15/8154, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, [before 31 October] 1774

‘price’. Greig, Diaries of a Duchess, 28–9

‘pounds’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 22, 540

‘crust’. Fitzgerald, Queen Charlotte, 97

‘followed them’. Dyce, Rogers’ Table Talk, 116

‘whip’. Murray, Recollections, 69

‘children’. RA GEO/50181, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 9 November 1799

‘better’. RA GEO/50178, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 4 February 1799

‘alone’. RA GEO/50181, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 9 November 1799

‘idle’. RA GEO/50196, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 16 March 1802

‘separation’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 3 September 1771

‘likewise’. Annual Register (1765), 25

‘fool’. Lady Louisa Stuart’s Memoir in Home, Lady Mary Coke, 1, lxxxvi

‘help her’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 21, 530

‘untruth’. RA GEO/15948, GIII’s Memorandum, after 1 December 1771

‘family’. RA GEO/15934, GIII to Dowager Princess of Wales, 3 November 1771

‘example’. RA GEO/15938, GIII to Duke of Gloucester, draft 9 November 1771

‘thought’. RA GEO/15939-40, GIII to Duke of Gloucester, 9 November 1771

‘hopes … door’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 4, 15ff

‘pardon him’. RA GEO/54250, Dowager Princess of Wales to GIII (Fr), [?November 1771]

‘to see’. RA GEO/15942, GIII to Duke of Gloucester, 19 November 1771

‘viscera’. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, 111

‘groan’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 23, 379

‘bitterly’. RA VIC/Y 171/81, Mary Campbell to Rebecca Fraser, Philadelphia, 1774

‘revolution’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 23, 375

‘character’. RA GEO/15975, GIII to Hereditary Princess, 8 May 1772

‘shades’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 4, 22

‘prettiest’. Ibid, 119

‘nieceling’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 32, 118

‘red’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 4, 178

‘abroad’. Ibid, 283

‘than ever’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 20 March 1772

house. RA GEO/Add 16/69, List of inhabitants at Kew, 1779

‘sorry to go’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 4, 180–1

‘repining’. RA GEO/Add 15/8154, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, [before 31 October] 1774

‘nursery’. RA GEO/Add 15/8155, Lady Charlotte Finch to Queen Charlotte, 31 October 1774

‘figure’. RA VIC/Y 171/81, Mary Campbell to Rebecca Fraser, Philadelphia, 1774

‘fitted for it’. RA GEO Add 15/8155, Lady Charlotte Finch to Queen Charlotte, 31 October 1774

‘anything’. LRO/DG7, Box 4953, Bundle 32, Henrietta Finch to Sophia Feilding, née Finch, 2 September 1774

‘three years ago …’. RA VIC/Y 171/81, Mary Campbell to Rebecca Fraser, Philadelphia, 1774

‘memory’. Ibid

‘learnt’. RA GEO/50186, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 14 May 1801

‘Roberts’. BL Add Ms 17870, Queen Charlotte’s Treasurer’s Accounts [1771-6], ff 92, 108

‘writing’. Anson Mss, A1, Writing exercises

‘geography teacher’. Shefrin, Affectionate Care, 7

‘French’. RA, Royal Household Index

‘geography’. RA VIC/Y 171/81, Mary Campbell to Rebecca Fraser, Philadelphia, 1774

‘children’. Ibid

‘with me’. Ibid

‘naughty child’. Ibid

‘find’. NYPL, Berg Col, Elizabeth to Fanny Burney, 21 April 1819

‘habit’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 4, 418

‘nothing’. BL, Eg Ms 3491 (Leeds Papers, 168), f135, Frederick to Lord Holderness, 26 November 1774

‘bed’. Home, Lady Mary Coke, 4, 119

‘fearful’. RA GEO/Add 15/8156, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, 17 April 1775

‘o clock’. Ibid

‘entirely’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Grand Duke Charles, 15 July 1776

‘particularly well’. Stuart, Daughters, 73

‘boys’ play’. RA GEO/50186, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 14 May 1801

‘inhabited’, van Thal, Ernest Augustus, 301, 2 August 1845

CHAPTER 3: THE YOUNGER ONES

Dacres. RA GEO/Add 12/2/1, Bounty Warrant, 8 December 1777

‘mummies’. Harcourt, Papers, 6, 294

‘women’. Anson, Hamilton, 84

‘truth’. Hibbert, Prince of Wales, 11

‘good’. RA GEO/Add 15/946, Augusta to Mary Compton, 26 November 1777

‘take place’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 6 October 1779

‘autre face’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 9 July 1776

‘£4000’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 17 January 1777

campagnarde’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 18 June 1776

‘week’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 3 May 1782

‘flowers’. Anson, Hamilton, 55

‘tender years’. Ibid, 58

‘clergy’. Ibid, 56

‘weak side’. Ibid, 59–60

‘have …’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 1777

‘to me’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, nd [1777]

‘minutes’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 19 December 1777

‘heard it’. Anson Mss, A1, Misc, Augusta to Mary Compton, 20 October 1777

‘Dacres’. Anson Mss, A1, Misc, Augusta to Martha Gouldsworthy, 20 October 1777 (copy)

‘for you’. RA GEO/Add 15/930, Augusta to Mary Compton, nd

‘from her’. RA GEO/Add 15/943, Augusta to Mary Compton, [1777]

‘good’. RA GEO/Add 15/946, Augusta to Mary Compton, 26 November 1777

‘London’. RA GEO/Add 10/1, Augusta to Queen Charlotte, 26 December 1777

‘undone’. RA GEO/Add 15/929, Royal to Mary Compton, 4 November 1777

soon. RA GEO/Add 15/941, Royal to Mary Compton, 22 November 1777

‘do you’. Ibid

‘think so’. RA GEO/Add 15/940, Royal to Mary Compton, 25 November 1777

‘o clock’. RA GEO/Add 15/935, Royal to Mary Compton, December 1777

‘window’. RA GEO/Add 15/939, Royal to Mary Compton, 23 November 1777

‘tomorrow’. RA GEO/Add 15/944, Royal to Mary Compton, 26 November 1777

‘mama’. RA GEO/Add 15/952, Royal to Mary Compton, 5 December 1777

‘ground’. RA GEO/Add 15/953, Royal to Mary Compton, 7 December 1777

Windsor. RA GEO/Add 2/81, Royal to Queen Charlotte, 27 December 1777

‘often’. RA GEO/Add 15/924, Elizabeth to Mary Compton, nd

‘establishment’, ‘Court’. Anson, Hamilton, 127, 50

‘show’. Anson Mss, A1, Writing exercises, Augusta, 17 July 1788

‘Sophia’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, Kew House, 1778

‘sleepy’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mrs Hamilton, 28 November [1777]

‘night’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 20 December 1777

‘Matilda’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 13 January 1778

‘mama’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 14 January 1778

‘with me’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 17 January 1778

‘esteem you’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, nd

‘character’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, nd

‘heureuse’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 28 Janvier 1778

‘continue it’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 28 January 1778

‘friend’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 30 January 1778

‘Matilda’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 1 February 1778

‘loved them’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton 3 February 1778

‘tomorrow’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 6 February 1778

‘rhubarb’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 8 August 1778

Palace. Anson Mss, A15, Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, nd [February 1778]

‘breakfast’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 6 June 1780

library. Roberts, Royal Artists, 69ff

‘malgré moi’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, ?January 1778

‘look for you’. RA GEO/36352-4, Queen Charlotte to GIII, 26 April 1778

‘ground’. Anson, Hamilton, 66

‘the place’. Llanover, Mrs Delany, 2, 379

‘living at it’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/3, Queen Charlotte to William, [9 July 1779]

‘everybody’. Llanover, Mrs Delany, 2, 370–82

‘good sense’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 3, 49

‘advantage’. Anson Mss, A9, Louisa Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 25 July 1778

‘weighed’. Anson Mss, A9, Louisa Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 15 November 1779

ear’. Llanover, Mrs Delany, 2, 379–80

‘style’. LWL, Clement Col, Laura Keppel to Jane Clement, 8 August 1776

‘Windsor’. Ibid

‘autumn’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/3, Queen Charlotte to William, 9 July 1779

attendants. RA GEO/Add 16/69, List of inhabitants at Kew, 1779

departed. Anson Mss, A2, Mary Hamilton to GP, June 1779

‘friend?’. Llanover, Mrs Delany, 2, 473–4

‘suffice’. Anson Mss, A17, Martha Gouldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 4 July 1779

‘dinner’. Anson Mss, A1, Elizabeth to Mary Hamilton, 26 September 1779

‘mischief’. Anson Mss, A1, Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 30 August 1780

‘confidence in’. RA GEO/Add 15/8157, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, ?9 October 1775

‘table’. Anson Mss, A17, Martha Gouldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 2 May 1779

‘wide world’. Anson Mss, A2, GP to Mary Hamilton, 14 November 1779

‘virtuous’. Anson, Hamilton, 90

‘object’. Anson Mss, A2, Mary Hamilton to GP, 7 December 1779

‘possible’. Anson Mss, A17, Martha Gouldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 20 June 1780

CHAPTER 4: ADOLESCENCE

‘egg’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 29 October 1775

‘there’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 15 June 1783

‘world’. Ibid

‘teachers’. Anson, Hamilton, 95

‘revenge’. Anson Mss, A1, Writing exercises, Elizabeth, nd

‘violence’. Anson Mss, A1, Writing exercises, Elizabeth, 1 January 1779

‘lessons’. Anson, Hamilton, 95

‘to you’. Ibid, 96

‘happy’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 6 September 1780

‘them all’. RA GEO/Add 15/8159, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, 8 July 1780

‘right’. RA GEO/Add 15/8158, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, 20 June 1780

‘delicacy’. Anson Mss, A1, Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 23 June 1780

‘so well’. Anson Mss, A1, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, July 1780

‘Friday’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 18 June 1780

‘to her’. Anson Mss, A1, Royal to Mary Hamilton, 13 July 1780

‘bed’. Anson Mss, A17, Martha Gouldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 20 June 1780

‘Windsor’. Anson Mss, A17, Martha Gouldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 27 July 1780

‘to her’. Anson Mss, A9, Margaret Planta to Mary Hamilton, 24 July 1780

Gouldsworthy. Anson Mss, A17, Martha Gouldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 16 September 1780

‘presents …’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 8 November 1779

‘titles’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 17 July 1780

‘inhabitants’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 33, 225-6 and notes

‘colours’. Ibid

‘King’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, reed 15 September 1780

‘Elizabeth’. RA GEO/Add 11/1, Elizabeth to GIII, 23 September 1780

‘nurse’. RA GEO/Add 15/442, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, 27 February 1781

September, ‘after you’. Anson Mss, A15, Mary Hamilton to Lady Charlotte Finch, 2 September 1781

‘done’. Anson Mss, A1, Misc, Lady Charlotte Finch to Elizabeth, 4 August 1781

‘Spectators’. Anson Mss, A1, Elizabeth to Mary Hamilton, 10 June 1781

‘for you’. Anson Mss, A1, Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 30 August 1780

‘indeed’. Anson Mss, A1, Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 16 July 1780

‘said…’, ‘person’. Anson Mss, A1, Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 25 June 1781

‘very fine’. Anson Mss, A15, Mary Hamilton to Lady Charlotte Finch, 2 September 1781

‘Genii’. Anson Mss, A15, Mary Hamilton to Lady Charlotte Finch, 2-4 September 1781

‘very well’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 33, 291, n18

‘cathedral’. Anson Mss, A15, Mary Hamilton to Lady Charlotte Finch, 2-4 September 1781

‘collection’. Anson Mss, A15, Lady Charlotte Finch to Augusta, 24 July 1781

‘themselves’. Anson Mss, A1, Writing exercises, Augusta, 5 February 1781

‘see you’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 13 March 1781

‘again’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, nd

‘bid me’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, nd

‘Hamilton’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, docketed by same, 14 August 1781

‘stir’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/16, Frederick to William, 29 June 1781

‘dress’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/20, Royal to William, 30 March 1782

‘my good’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 27 May 1782

occur. RA GEO/Add 15/8160, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, 8 June 1782

‘terrace’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 17 July 1780

‘Augusta’. RA GEO/Add 15/8160, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, 8 June 1782

‘pleasure’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 20 September 1782

weak. Anson Mss, A9, Louisa Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, August 1782

‘doctor’. RA GEO/Add 15/8161, Queen Charlotte to Lady Charlotte Finch, 19 July 1782

‘anything’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 1776

‘King also’. RA GEO/Add 15/8183, Lady Charlotte Finch to Sophia Feilding, 31 August 1782

‘mean to do’. Anson Mss, A1, Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 20 November 1782

‘angel’. Anson Mss, A9, Miss Margaret Planta to Mary Hamilton, 5 May 1783

‘point’. Anson Mss, A9, Louisa Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 5 May 1783

continue. Fulcher, Gainsborough, 111

‘remembrance’. Millar, Later Georgian, 38

‘talk to’. BL Add Ms 33131 (Chichester Papers), ff54-6, Queen Charlotte to Mary, Lady Holderness, January 1783

‘object’. HMC, Dartmouth, 442

‘wishes’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/39, Royal to William, 15 September 1783

CHAPTER 5: BROTHERS AND SISTERS

‘there’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 1 July 1783

‘established’. RA GEO/52107, Duchess of Brunswick to GIII, 7 November 1782

‘pin’. RA GEO/Add 4/22, Augusta to William, 6 November 1783

‘letters’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/48, 13 February 1784

‘brothers’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/47, Queen Charlotte to William, 29 December 1783

‘emulation’. RA GEO/Add 15/476 (Fr), Jacob Budé to GIII, c January 1784

‘way’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/50, Royal to William, 28 March 1784

‘soon’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/51, Augusta to William, 28 March 1784

‘dancing’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/50, Royal to William, 28 March 1784

‘pencils and paper’. Llanover, Mrs Delany, 3, 308

Saracens. Roberts, Royal Artists, 73–6

‘feathers’. Llanover, Mrs Delany, 3, 148

‘low’. Ibid, 2, 496

‘pearls’. Ibid, 3, 150

‘scarlet’. Ibid, 2, 473

‘actress’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/51, Augusta to William, 28 March 1784

‘sum’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, winter 1783?

‘grew up’. HMC, Ailesbury, 269–70

‘Royalty’, ‘attentive’. Campbell, Mrs Siddons, 128ff, 136ff

‘preceptress’. Boaden, Kemble, 1, 118–19

‘enunciate’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 1, 205

‘emolument’. Campbell, Mrs Siddons, 136n

‘comedy’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 1, 204

‘face’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 3, 254

‘engagements’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 168–70

‘alliance’. RA GEO/52351, GIII to Lord Carmarthen,? November 1785

‘think of it’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 209

‘fool!’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 3, 223–6

‘monks’. RA GEO/Add 15/8054, Ernest to Thomas Hughes, 4 April 1788

‘known’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta’s narrative, September 1785

‘needle’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 2, 424

‘together’. RA GEO/Add 13/3 (Fr), Sophia to GIII, nd

‘amused’. RA GEO/Add 12/11 (Fr), Mary to GIII, nd

‘Sophie’. RA GEO/Add 13/1 (Fr), Sophia to GIII, nd

‘ourselves’. RA GEO/Add 13/4 (Fr), Sophia to GIII, after 8 August 1783

‘very obligingly’. Adams, Works, 8, 266

‘Copley’. Millar, Later Georgian, 20

‘better’. RA GEO/Add 12/10 (Fr), Mary to GIII, nd [supposed 1785]

‘lungs’. Llanover, Mrs Delany, 3, 315

‘spasms’. Ibid, 326

‘side’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 1, 265

‘embroidery’. Lewis, Walpole Correspondence, 33, 498–500

‘attacks’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 20 January 1786

‘distresses’. Stuart, Daughters, 144

‘more’. RA GEO/Add 9/16, Elizabeth to Augustus, c 6 September 1786

‘yours’. RA GEO/Add 9/7, Augusta to Augustus, July [1786]

‘House’. RA GEO/Add 9/10, Royal to Augustus, 26 July [1786]

‘stabbed’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 2, 414

‘her so’. Harcourt, Papers, 11, 262

‘fathers’. RA GEO/Add 9/11, Royal to Augustus, August 1786

‘misfortune’. RA GEO/Add 9/13, Augusta to Augustus, ?8 August 1786

‘having’. RA GEO/Add 9/59, Elizabeth to Augustus, ?November 1786

‘long’. RA GEO/Add 9/25, Elizabeth to Augustus, c March 1787

‘Matilda’. RA GEO/Add 9/20, Royal to Augustus, 20 January 1787

‘fortune’. RA GEO/Add 9/21, Royal to Augustus, early 1787

‘characters’. RA GEO/Add 9/25, Elizabeth to Augustus, 30 March 1787

‘no more’. RA GEO/Add 9/27, Augusta to Augustus, spring 1787

‘knew him’. RA GEO/Add 9/34, Augusta to Augustus, 1-2 August 1787

‘liquors’. Ibid

‘bed’. RA GEO/Add 9/36, Elizabeth to Augustus,? 19 August 1787

‘again’. RA GEO/Add 9/34a, Augusta to Augustus, after 19 August 1787

‘in it’. RA GEO/Add 9/34, Augusta to Augustus, 1-2 August 1787

‘very much’. RA GEO/Add 9/34a, Augusta to Augustus, after 19 August 1787

‘improve’. RA GEO/Add 9/40, Royal to Augustus, 28 November 1787

‘desire’. RA GEO/Add 21/212, Augusta to William, spring 1788

‘daughter’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 2, 401

‘manner’. Ibid, 3, 103

‘respect’. Ibid, 2, 386

‘world’. Ibid, 427

‘young’. Ibid, 411

‘age’. Ibid, 410–11

‘sustaining it’. Ibid, 403

‘them’. Ibid, 411

‘over’. Ibid, 411–12

‘way’. Mountstuart Mss, BU/114/5, Queen Charlotte to Lord Bute, 19 March 1788

‘honour’. Roberts, Royal Artists, 65

‘doing it’. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, 138

‘assist’. Mountstuart Mss, BU/114/5, Queen Charlotte to Lord Bute, 19 March 1788

‘being’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 1, 228

‘sweetness’. Philobiblon, ‘Mrs Harcourt’s Diary’, Miscellanies, 13, 35–6

‘darling’. Buchan, Lady Louisa Stuart, 195

‘to them’. RA GEO/Add 9/47, Royal to Augustus, 3 July 1788

‘aspect’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 378, n2

‘wanting’. Ibid, 380–1

CHAPTER 6: FEAR

‘defend him …’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 390

draught. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 68

bed. Ibid, 76

‘head’, ‘face’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 4–5

‘purgative’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 383

‘beaucoup’. RA GEO/Add 13/5, Sophia to GIII, 22 July 1788

‘today’. RA GEO/Add 12/14, Mary to GIII, 22 July 1788

‘Amelia’. RA GEO/Add 14/2, Amelia to GIII, 22 July 1788

‘happy’. RA GEO/Add 13/6, Sophia to GIII, 5 August 1788

‘gypsy’. Esher, Girlhood of Queen Victoria, 1, 309

‘done’, ‘pleased’, ‘exceedingly’. RA GEO/Add 12/16, Mary to GIII, 7 August 1788

‘spirits’. RA GEO/Add 9/51, Augusta to Augustus, 26 September 1788

‘Cheltenham’. RA GEO/Add 9/55, Royal to Augustus, 26 September 1788

‘of them’. RA GEO/Add 9/56, Elizabeth to Augustus, c 26 September 1788

‘geese’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 107

‘use to him’. HMC, Ailesbury, 293

‘ones’. RA GEO/Add 9/57, Royal to Augustus, 17 October [1788]

‘cords’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 10

Richmond. Minto, Life, 1, 228–9

‘attack’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 14

‘lame’. Ibid

‘delirium’. Ibid, 17

‘rest’. Buckingham and Chandos, George III, 1, 429

‘own’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 17

‘skin’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 397

‘stiffness’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 18

‘moment’. Buckingham and Chandos, George III, 1, 431

‘inexpressibly’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 120

calmer. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 16

‘mind’. Ibid, 14

waist. HMC, Ailesbury, 297

‘Princesses’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 20–1

know. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 128

‘remove’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 1, 360

‘irresolution’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 125

‘alarmed’. Ibid, 126

twice. Ibid, 127

‘desultory’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 24

mouth. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 21–2

‘water’. Ibid, 22

‘mind’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 25

‘unconfiding’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 129

‘ill too’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 24

‘nervous’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 136

‘restored’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 28

‘of me!’, ‘apprehensions’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 140

‘grief. Ibid, 141

‘death’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 1, 366–7

‘whatever’. Ibid, 369

effect. Moore, Sheridan, 2, 23

curtsey. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 150

‘dog’. Moore, Sheridan, 2, 24

‘dropsical’. Gentleman’s Magazine, October 1788

‘now’. BL Add Ms 41579, Lady Elizabeth Foster’s Journal, copy, 14, 20 November 1788

‘skin’. Bessborough, Georgiana, 138

‘throughout’. Bladon, Robert Fulke Greville, 81

‘retirement’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 152

‘rowing’. Bladon, Robert Fulke Greville, 81

hours. Ibid, 82–3

‘churches’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 159

‘must not’. BL Add Ms 41579, copy, f4, 20 November 1788

‘flourishes’. Eden, Auckland Correspondence, 2, 244

‘Buckingham’. Ibid

‘house’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 59–60

wake, LRO, DG7, Box 4953, Bundle 32, Lady Charlotte Finch to Lord Winchilsea, November 1788

‘cure’. RA, King’s Physicians’ Reports, 23, 27 November 1788

‘strait waistcoat’. BL Add Ms 41579, Lady Elizabeth Foster’s Journal, copy, f6, 2 December 1788

‘destroy them’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 199

‘person’. Hunter and Macalpine, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 511–13

‘house’. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, 103

‘frightened’. BL Add Ms 41579, Lady Elizabeth Foster’s Journal, copy, ff13 and 15, 14 and 19 December 1788

‘days’. RA, King’s Physicians’ Reports, 17 December 1788

‘talking about’. RA, King’s Physicians’ Reports, 18 December 1788

‘stage’. Hayward, Lady of Quality, 122

‘doing so’. Hutton, Bland Burges, 114

‘as ever’. RA, King’s Physicians’ Reports, 24 December 1788

‘hitherto’. RA, King’s Physicians’ Reports, 28 December 1788

‘Majesty’. RA, King’s Physicians’ Reports, Francis Willis to GP, 1 January 1789

‘wild’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 77

‘Cordelias’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 22 February 1819

‘properly’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 221

‘illness’. Macalpine, Mad-business, 86

‘recovery’. RA, King’s Physicians’ Reports, Sir George Baker, Sir Lucas Pepys and Francis Willis to GP, 27 February 1789

CHAPTER 7: HOPE

‘appearance’. Wraxall, Historical and Posthumous Memoirs, 3, 369–70

‘this’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 269–70

‘horseback’. Ibid, 271

‘time’. Anson Mss, A1, Misc, Leonard Smelt to Mary Dickenson, née Hamilton, 14 March 1789

‘bedposts’. Philobiblon, ‘Mrs Harcourt’s Diary’, Miscellanies, 13, 37

‘anything’. Jesse, George III, 3, 116

‘Hanover’. RA GEO/Add 9/67, GIII to Augustus, 24 March 1789

‘Englishwoman’. RA GEO/Add 9/68, Elizabeth to Augustus, 16 April 1789

‘dressed’, ‘great’. Doran, Lives of Queens, 2, 147

‘Jubilate’. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, 347

‘walking’. Minto, Life, 1, 304–5

‘millions’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 285

‘opinion’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 9 May 1789

‘dejection’, ‘papers’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 96

‘Lennox’s’. Minto, Life, 1, 313-22, and cf Hutton, Bland Burges, 121–5

lover. RA GEO/Add 11/214, [Ashe, Thomas], The Claustral Palace, Ms ‘Programma’

‘sea’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 400, n4

‘relaxation’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 96

‘year’. Harcourt, Papers, 8, 281

‘faces’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 1, 21

‘crowns’. Harcourt, Papers, 8, 280

‘King’. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 4, 298

‘other [day]’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 433

‘men’. Ibid

‘greatcoats!’. RA GEO/Add 9/75, Royal to Augustus, 10 August 1789

‘fat’. Harcourt, Papers, 8, 312

‘room’. RA GEO/Add 9/73, Augusta to Augustus, c 20 July 1789

‘scene’. RA GEO(M)/21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 1789

‘woman’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 1, 27

‘battery’, ‘keep it’, ‘wood’. Harcourt, Papers, 8, 282—7

round her. Philobiblon, ‘Mrs Harcourt’s Diary’, Miscellanies, 13, 11

‘employment’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 2, 141—2

‘equalized’. Royal Children exhibition, Queen’s Gallery, 1963, 17

‘man’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 23 December 1789

‘France’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 440

‘people’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 23 December 1789

‘way’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 443

‘cheap’. RA GEO/Add 9/78, Augusta to Augustus, 15 September 1789

‘ever saw’. RA GEO/Add 2/48, Lady Mary Howe to Louisa, Lady Altamont, 2 January 1790

‘painting’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 23 February 1789

‘consequence’. RA GEO/Add 9/84, Augusta to Augustus, end February 1790

‘wish most to see’. Ibid

‘most wish to see’. RA GEO/Add 9/91, Elizabeth to Augustus, 30 May and 14 June 1790

‘close’. RA GEO/Add 9/88, Royal to Augustus, May 1790

‘just got’. RA GEO/Add 9/85, Augusta to Augustus, 1 March 1790

‘again’. RA GEO/Add 9/91, Elizabeth to Augustus, 30 May and 14 June 1790

‘about’. Clement Col, LWL, Charlotte Keppel to Anne Clement, June 1790

‘particular’. RA GEO/Add 9/92, Augusta to Augustus, 18 June 1790

‘forward’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 1, 488

‘service’. RA GEO/Add 10/2, Augusta to Ernest, 20 July 1790

‘while’. RA GEO/Add 9/100, Augusta to Augustus, 2 September 1790

‘women’. RA GEO/Add 9/103, Royal to Augustus, 24 September 1790

‘hair’. RA GEO/Add 9/107, Sophia to Augustus, 23 November 1790

‘nothing’. RA GEO/Add 9/75, Royal to Augustus, 10 August 1789

‘breakfasted there’. RA GEO/Add 9/99, Royal to Augustus, 17 August 1790

‘vastly well’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt to Lord Harcourt, August 1790

‘old’. RA GEO/Add 9/110, Queen Charlotte to Augustus, 22 December 1790

Court. Montbrison, d’Oberkirch Memoirs, 3, 63

‘months’. RA GEO/Add 9/111, Augusta to Augustus, 23-25 December 1790

‘desired of. Harcourt Mss (Fr), Prince Ferdinand of Württemberg to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 3 January 1791

‘number’. RA GEO/Add 11/2, Elizabeth to Augustus, finished 1 January 1791

‘behold’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 2, 208

‘forward’. Ibid

‘night’. RA GEO/Add 9/119, Augusta to Prince Augustus, 22 [finished 29] January 1791

‘to their Majesties’. Harcourt Mss (Fr), Prince Ferdinand of Württemberg to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 19 January 1791

‘Augusta’. Ibid, docket by Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 29 January 1791

‘of their majesties’. Harcourt Mss (Fr), Prince Ferdinand of Württemberg to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 20 January 1791

‘elder’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 2, 208

‘everything’. RA GEO/Add 9/119, Augusta to Augustus, 22 [finished 29] January 1791

‘taken’. RA GEO/Add 9/135, Augusta to Augustus, 30 April 1791

‘my life’. RA GEO/Add 9/119, Augusta to Augustus, 22 [finished 29] January 1791

‘done up for’. RA GEO/Add 9/135, Augusta to Augustus, 30 April 1791

‘morning’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 2, 216–17

‘screamed’. RA GEO/Add 11/5, Elizabeth to Augustus, finished 27 May 1791

‘liable’. RA GEO/Add 9/132, Augusta to Augustus, 8-10 April 1791

‘ladies’. RA GEO/Add 9/135, Augusta to Augustus, 30 April 1791

‘Mary’. RA GEO/Add 9/131, Frederick to Augustus, 29 March 1791

‘pretty’. RA GEO/Add 9/122, Mary to Augustus, c 7 February 1791

‘thing’. RA GEO/Add 9/121, Sophia to Augustus, 1 February 1791

‘royalty’. RA GEO/Add 9/137 Augusta to Augusta, 10 June 1791

‘infant’, ‘postponed’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 2, 162

‘assist’. Ibid, 163

‘response’. Ibid, 170

‘severity’, ‘woman’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 2, 217

‘botanized’. RA GEO/Add 11/9, Elizabeth to Augustus, 30 July-1 August 1791

‘paradise’, ‘success’. RA GEO/Add 9/124, Queen Charlotte to Augustus, 11 February 1791

‘it did’, ‘first’, ‘about it’. RA GEO/Add 9/123, Elizabeth to Augustus, c 8 February 1791

‘day’. RA GEO/Add 9/140, Elizabeth to Augustus, 28 August 1791

‘for it’, ‘each other’, ‘apple’. Harcourt, Papers, 4, 295–8

‘faith’, ‘Terrace’, ‘wax’. RA GEO/Add 9/144, Augusta to Augustus, 4 September 1791

‘charming’. RA GEO/Add 9/153, Royal to Augustus, end November 1791

‘to you’. RA GEO/Add 9/151, Royal to Augustus, c 4 November 1791

‘broke’. RA GEO/Add 9/153, Royal to Augustus, end November 1791

‘to you’. RA GEO/Add 9/158, Queen Charlotte to Augustus, 13 January 1792

CHAPTER 8: DESPOND

‘whiles.’ RA GEO/Add 9/160, Augusta to Augustus, 3 February 1792

‘other’, ‘laughable’. RA GEO/Add 9/162, Sophia to Augustus, 19 February 1792

‘Amelia.’ Hemlow, BurneyJournals, 1, 110

‘cards’. RA GEO/Add 9/162, Sophia to Augustus, 19 February 1792

‘secret’. RA GEO/Add 15/8092, Augustus to Thomas Hughes, 10 January 1792

‘one’, ‘Frogmore’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 1, 149

‘amusement’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 1792

‘for them’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 1, 220

‘degree’. Harcourt Mss, Sophia to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, c 14 October 1792

‘each other’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 1, 109

‘particular’. Ibid, 149

‘given up’. RA/VIC/Add A 8/330, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 6 August [1850]

‘dressing’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 3 October 1792

‘very good’. Harcourt Mss, Sophia to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 14 November 1792

‘campaign’. RA GEO/48401, Adolphus to GIII, 1 February 1793

‘1793’. Harcourt Mss, Verses vol

‘ever since’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, Oct 1793

‘swallow’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 28 May 1793

‘attends her’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, October 1793

‘own room’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 8 July 1793

‘illness’. RA GEO/Add 13/9, Sophia to GIII, 19 August [1793]

‘to you’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 2, 388

‘life’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, October 1793

‘mention that’. RA GEO/Add 13/11, Sophia to GIII, 15 October 1793

‘well’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 2 August 1793

‘very much’. Harcourt, Papers, 5, 365–6

‘angel’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 17 September 1793

‘ever saw’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 2, 467

‘roses’. RA GEO/Add 15/982, Queen Charlotte to Henry Compton, 6 October 1793

‘a coming’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 17 September 1793

‘is in’. Gillen, Royal Duke, 75

‘immediately’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, 14 November 1793

‘England’. Harcourt, Papers, 5, 403-4, 414

‘themselves’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, January 1794

‘till one’. RA GEO/Add 43/3, Queen Charlotte’s Journal, 25, 29 January 1794

‘Murray’. Gillen, Royal Duke, 85

‘Frederick’. Ibid, 86

‘proudest’. RA GEO/Add 15/8166, Elizabeth to Lady Charlotte Finch, 26 June 1794

‘glory’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 3, 182

‘conversation’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 25 July 1794

‘possible’. Harcourt Mss, Sophia to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 24 July 1794

‘bread’. Hutton, Bland Burges, 284

‘weak and sick’, ‘as she is’. Harcourt, Papers, 5, 562–4

‘face’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 32

‘House’. Ibid, 33

‘weapons’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Lord Harcourt, 13 May 1795

‘condescension’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 6, 53

‘heat’. RA GEO/Add 43/3, Queen Charlotte’s Diary, 24 August 1794

‘rose’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 85

‘to you’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 119

‘express’. RA GEO/Add 15/8168, Elizabeth to Lady Charlotte Finch, 6 November 1795

‘noise’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 7 November 1795

‘on him’. HMC, Fortescue, 3, 147

‘united with hers’. RA GEO/51398-9 (Fr), Hereditary Prince to GIII, 12 December 1795

‘little girl’. RA GEO/Add 15/8169, Mary to Lady Charlotte Finch, 9 January 1796

‘and soul’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 132ff

‘follow’. RA GEO/Add 11/54, Elizabeth to GP, [6 June 1796]

‘accomplishment’. Harcourt Mss, Memo re Counts Zeppelin and Worontzow, 5 May 1796

‘negotiations’. RA GEO/51400 (Fr), Hereditary Prince to Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 4 June 1796

‘take place’. RA GEO/51401 (Fr), GIII to Hereditary Prince, 15 July 1796

‘amused’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 267

‘country’. RA GEO/51404 (Fr), Hereditary Prince to GIII, 6 October 1796

‘marriage’. HMC, Fortescue, 3, 265

‘from it’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 4 December 1796

‘lamb’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 6 January 1797

‘with him’. RA GEO/Add 15/8171, Elizabeth to Lady Charlotte Finch, April 1797

‘bursting’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 25

‘lover’. Buckingham and Chandos, George III, 2, 377

‘answers’. Hemlow, BurneyJournals, 3, 314

‘spoken of’. Harcourt, Papers, 6, 73, 148

three. Disbrowe, Old Days, 179

‘life’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 4, 7

‘herself’, gold. Ibid, 14

‘heralds’. Hutton, Bland Burges, 301

‘procession’. George, Political and Personal Caricature, 7, 350

‘show’. Harcourt, Papers, 6, 146

‘attention’. Ibid, 147

‘follow’, late. RA GEO/Add 37/5, Anne Hayman to Eleanor Hayman, 2 June 1797

‘regretted’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 11 October 1802

‘possessing it’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 4, 8

‘very much’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 347

‘daughter’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 2, 590

‘happy’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Grand Duke Charles, 12 June 1797

‘overcome’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 2, 595

CHAPTER 9: IN SPIRITS

‘away’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 2, 609–10

‘sister’. RA GEO/Add 37/7, Anne Hayman to Eleanor Hayman, 5 June 1797

‘room’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 1 August 1797

Tomkins. Tomkins, Birth and Triumph

Love’. Bland Burges, Birth and Triumph of Love; Egerton, Birth and Triumph of Love [plates]

‘HRH’. Hutton, Bland Burges, 276-7, 295–6

‘poem’. Ibid, 296–7

‘verse’. Ibid, 298

‘poets’. Ibid

‘very much’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Lord Harcourt, ?1795

‘Doll’. Tomkins, Birthday Gift

‘dog’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 6 March 1796

Elizabeth. Harcourt Mss, ‘Verses’ vol

‘Love’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 3, 187

‘first’. Ibid, 191

‘gold’. Ibid, 195

‘forward’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Lord Harcourt, 7 June 1795

‘redecoration’. Hemlow, Burney Journals 3, 181

gardens. Dobson, d’Arblay Diary, 5, 216

‘effects’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 3, 185

‘lines’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Lord and Lady Harcourt, ?4 December 1796

‘else’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/36, Elizabeth to Frances Garth, 7 July 1797

‘performers’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 4, 10–11

‘please’. Ibid, 11–12

‘greatly’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/21, Sophia to Frances Garth, nd

‘head’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/22, Sophia to Frances Garth, c 12 June 1796

‘long’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/25, Sophia to Frances Garth, nd

‘devil’. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Memoirs 1, 271

‘même’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 465

‘presence’. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Memoirs, 1, 271

‘enquiries’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/29, Sophia to Frances Garth, c April 1797

‘repaired’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 2, 611–12

‘with child’. Ibid, 618

‘grandchildren’. Ibid, 633

‘dreadful’. Ibid, 641

nine. Stuttgart State Archives, G245/B15, Royal to Hereditary Prince, 22 November 1797

that day. Stuttgart State Archives, G245/B15, Royal to Hereditary Prince, 23 November 1797

‘heroes’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 12 November 1797

‘Court’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 2, 611–12

‘closet’. Ibid, 3, 24–5

‘to us’. Ibid, 36

‘to me’. Ibid, 30–1

‘Schrader’. Ibid, 43

‘in life’. Ibid, 35

‘submit’. Ibid, 43

‘safety’. RA GEO/51472, Charles Arbuthnot to GP, 2 May 1798

‘preparing her’. Harcourt, Papers, 6, 148 (Fr) ‘recovery’. Ibid

‘my child’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 57–8

‘cure me’. Ibid, 58

‘blow there’. Ibid, 209

‘sight’. Ibid, 111

snow, ‘stomach’. Brownlow, Eve of Victorianism, 3–4

‘pain’. RA GEO/50179, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 4 May 1799

rocking horse. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 415

‘which it is’. RA GEO/Add 37/5, Anne Hayman to Eleanor Hayman, 2 June 1797

‘left hand’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 457

‘King’s. RA GEO/Add 21/8/60, Sophia to Frances Garth, summer 1798

‘lips’, ‘captivating’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 4, 95

‘attend to’. Delves Broughton, Mrs Papendiek, 2, 216

lessons. Ibid

sands. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 107

‘better’. Ibid 103

thanks. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 448 n2

‘motion’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 109

‘amendment’. Ibid, 122

‘stronger’. RA VIC/Add A/8/2202, Amelia to Jane Gomm, 23 September 1798

‘minute’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 3, 482

‘lapels’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 4, 232

‘Keate’. Ibid, 225

‘seized me’. RA VIC/Add A 8/2202 enc, Amelia to Jane Gomm, 23 September 1798

‘hurts’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 157

‘canter’. RA VIC/Y 19/54, Amelia to Anne Parker, 20 December 1798

‘what is right’, ‘to do right’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 103

‘know’. Ibid, 3, 122

‘originated’. Bickley, Glenbervie, 2, 94

‘letters’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/1 and passim, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy

‘to me’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 4, 102

bride. Moremen, Steadfast Son, 92–3

‘problem’. Stuart, Daughters, 102

‘whims’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 2, 367

‘again’. Ibid, 4, 67

‘happy’. Ibid, 3, 501

‘calm’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 198

‘death’. Minto, Life, 3, 177–8

‘bêtise’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 16 June 1800

‘joy’, ‘custody’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 16 June 1800

‘hot rooms’, Weymouth. RA GEO/Add 21/8/55, Sophia to Frances Garth, 25 May 1800

‘sociable’. Gentleman’s Magazine, August 1800

‘shortly’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 4, 150

‘excursions’. Gentleman’s Magazine, September 1800

beef. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Memoirs, 1, 271

‘paper house’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 447

‘prisoner’. Ibid

‘Review’, ‘success’. Ibid, 452–3

armistice. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 464, 468

peace. Ibid, 470

CHAPTER 10: AGITATION

‘testify’. BL Add Ms 41692, Willis Journal, fi09, 17 March 1801

‘unjustly’. Harcourt Mss, Sophia to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 30 December 1800

‘nurse’. RA GEO/Add 13/100, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 10 January 1805

intimate. BL Add Ms 52483, f4, Sophia to ‘My very dear, dear General’, nd

‘father’. Bickley, Glenbervie, 1, 363–4

‘daughters’. Ibid

‘Wales’. RA GEO/Add 21/179/5, Elizabeth to Thomas Willis, 6 June 1801

‘person’. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, 136–7

‘once more’. BL Add Ms 52483, f4, Sophia to ‘My very dear, dear General’, nd

slept. Jesse, George III, 3, 245

‘chilled’. Malmesbury, Diaries, 4, 27

nothing more. BL Add Ms 41692, Willis Journal, f5, 16 February 1801 quiet. Colchester, Diary, 1, 243

‘ill’. BL Add Ms 41692, Willis Journal, ff9-10, 21 February 1801

‘arranging’. Buckingham and Chandos, George III, 3, 144

‘letter’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 4, 203

‘anything’, ‘angry’. BL Add Ms 41692, Willis Journal, ff27-85, 2-14 March 1801

‘spirits’, ‘sent for’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Lord Harcourt, 16 March 1801

‘more’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 17 November 1801

‘fondness’. HMC, Carlisle, 733–4

‘live’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 126–7

‘family’. RA GEO/Add 21/179/5, Elizabeth to Thomas Willis, 6 June 1801

‘fatigued’. Ibid

‘minute’. Doran, Lives of the Queens, 2, 180

‘for her’. Bickley, Glenbervie, 1, 224–5

‘sisters’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/72, Sophia to Frances Garth, summer 1801

‘home’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 540

‘girl’. RA GEO/50188, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 24 May 1801

‘timidity’. RA GEO/50189, Royal to Martha, Lady Elgin, 25 June 1801

‘Adolphus’s’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 3, 603

‘trouble’. Ibid, 552

‘in it’. Ibid, 578

‘amusement’. Ibid, 591

‘long’. Ibid, 584

‘England’. Ibid, 606

‘headaches’. Ibid, 630

‘apply [myself]’, ‘determined’. Ibid

‘followed’. Ibid, 625

‘war’. Ibid, 633

‘father’. Harcourt Mss, Sophia to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 25 July 1801

‘partout’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 17 November 1801

‘ball’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 4, 3

‘work’. Ibid, 30

‘landscapes’. Ibid, 62

‘wholly’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 11 October 1802

‘afraid’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 4, 65–6

‘day’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 4, 303

‘usual’. Ibid, 304

‘understanding’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 23 July 1802

‘it had’. RA GEO/Add 15/8174, Mary to Lady Charlotte Finch, 2 January 1803

‘world’. RA GEO/Add 21/90/40, Princess of Wales to Elizabeth, Lady Townshend, 7 September 1807

‘charming’. RA GEO/Add 15/8174, Mary to Lady Charlotte Finch, 2 January 1803

‘expected’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 26 December 1803

‘fine trees’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 8 October 1803

‘service’. RA GEO/52412 (Fr), Friedrich V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg to GIII, 12 January 1804

‘well’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 19 July 1803

‘way …’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 31 July 1803

‘mire’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 17 September 1803

‘I have’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 79

‘she was’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 26 December 1803

‘do well’. Harcourt Mss, Amelia to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 1 January 1804

‘together’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 4, 437–8

‘through’. Ibid, 496

‘sensation’. HMC, Fortescue, 7, 215

‘necessary’. Colchester, Diary, 1, 481

‘passès’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 3 March 1804

‘at 50’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 20 April 1804

‘miracle’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 7 May 1804

‘Amelia’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 85–7

‘occasion’. Ibid, 87–9

‘extraordinary’, ‘martyrdom’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 3 July 1804

‘Princess’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 5, 59

‘mercy’. Ibid, 70

‘ill’. Ibid, 86

‘sisters’. Ibid

‘vexatious’. RA GEO/Add 13/86, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 20 August 1804

‘sano’. HMC, Fortescue, 7, 232–3

‘coach’. Ibid, 223

‘duty’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 5, 114

‘else’, ‘right’. Eden, Auckland Correspondence, 4, 213–14

‘childish’. HMC, Fortescue, 7, 232

‘illness’. RA GEO/Add 14/54, Amelia to Edward, 12 November 1804

‘happiness’. RA GEO/Box 11/32C, GIII to Princess of Wales, 13 November 1804

‘odious!’. RA GEO/Add 13/88, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, December 1804

‘feels’. RA GEO/Add 13/91, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 9 December 1804

‘spirits’. RA GEO/Add 13/90, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, December 1804

‘forgive’. RA GEO/Add 13/92, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 24 December 1804

‘whole’. Ibid

‘Frogmore’. Ibid

‘quiet’. Ibid

‘unfavourable’. HMC, Fortescue, 7, 247

‘eyes’. RA GEO/Add 13/95, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 30 December 1804

‘my life’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 26 December 1804

‘consequence’. RA GEO/Add 13/103, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, ?19 January 1805

‘lament it’. RA GEO/Add 13/106, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, ?22 January 1805

‘from it’. RA GEO/Add 13/109, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 17 February 1805

‘stone’. RA GEO/Add 13/108, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 18 February 1805

‘mother’. RA GEO/Add 15/8129, William Cookson to Thomas Hughes, 19 January 1805

‘attended to’. Twiss, Lord Eldon, 1, 481–2

‘possible’. RA GEO/Add 37/32, Anne Hayman to Eleanor Hayman, 30 January [1805?]

‘blame them’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to GIII, ?9 April 1805

‘Germany’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), GIII to Queen Charlotte, 9 April 1805

‘separation’. Ibid

‘invalids’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 11 April 1805

‘hands’. Hare, Bunsen, 1, 70–1

‘evil’. PRO 30/70/6/400, Hoare Pitt Papers, Queen Charlotte to Mary Elizabeth, Lady Chatham, 3 August 1805

‘here’. RA GEO/Add 13/122, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 16 July 1805

‘alive’, ‘over’. RA GEO/Add 13/126, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, [1805]

‘things’. Ibid

‘himself’. Ibid

‘kangaroo’. Ibid

‘exalted’. RA GEO/Add 15/8176, Elizabeth to Lady Charlotte Finch, 6 November 1805

‘march’. RA GEO/Add 21/101/8, Royal to Lady Charlotte Finch, 6 November 1805

‘happy’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 27 May 1805

‘tyrant’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 12 December 1805

‘esteem’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 5, 305–6

‘situation’. RA GEO/Add 21/101/9, Royal to Lady Charlotte Finch, 2 January 1806

‘names’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 5, 305–6

‘received’. Stuart, Daughters, 48

‘great’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 5, 305–6

‘marriage’. O’Meara, Napoleon, 372–3

CHAPTER 11: OUTCRY

‘blow’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 108

‘Wales’. Fairburn, The Book, 1–4

‘morning’. RA GEO/Add 21/90/6, Princess of Wales to Elizabeth, Lady Townshend, 31 May-1 June 1806

lawyers. RA GEO/Add 21/90/1, Princess of Wales to GIII, 8 June 1806

‘receive her’, ‘good humoured’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/5, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, ‘Thursday night, I have so much to say to you …’

‘story …’. RA GEO/Add 13/100, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 10 January 1805

‘perfect rag’. RA GEO/Add 13/103, Sophia to Theresa Villiers,? 19 January 1805

‘too often’. RA GEO/Add 13/107, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 23 January 1805

‘world’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/185, Thomas Garth to Frances Garth, 17 July 1806

‘tears’. RA GEO/Box 8/15, Duchess of Brunswick to GIII, 25 August 1806

‘release’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 1 December 1806

‘alone’. RA/GEO/Add 21/90/59, Spencer Perceval to Elizabeth, Lady Townshend, 10 December 1806

‘concern’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 127

‘powder’. Fairburn, The Book, Appendix, 63–4

‘reprimand’. RA GEO/Add 37/43, Princess of Wales to Anne Hayman, 2 February 1807

‘succession’. RA GEO/Box 8/3, GP to GIII, 1 February 1807

‘Eagle’. Granville, Private Correspondence, 2, 251

‘sufferings’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 4, 521

‘England’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 325–6

‘shook’. RA GEO/Add 37/55, Princess of Wales to Anne Hayman, 29 November 1807

‘taste’. RA GEO/52252, Duchess of Brunswick to GIII, 3 September 1807

‘cats’. RA GEO/Add 37/54, Princess of Wales to Anne Hayman, after 3 September 1807

‘ago’. RA GEO/Add 37/48, Princess of Wales to Anne Hayman, 14 July 1807

‘loss’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 7 September 1807

‘escaped’. Ibid

‘better’. United Service Journal (1829), 2, 83–8

‘choice’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 28 June 1808

‘endeavour’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 17 August 1808

‘myself. RA GEO/Add 15/991, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 13 February 1808

‘lonely’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 265

‘toe’. Ibid, 298

‘father’. Ibid, 308–10

‘country’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/36, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 11 July 1808

‘with her’. Ibid

‘ruined’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 136

‘outrageous’. Ibid, 137

‘this year’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/36, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 11 July 1808

‘pay for’. RA VIC/Y 19/34, Amelia to Charlotte Williams, 25 January 1808

‘rogue’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 356 n1

‘give up’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 17 September 1807

‘unwholesome’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 308–9

‘desk’. Ibid

‘tail’, ‘kindness’. Ibid

‘nameless’. Ibid, 316

‘upon it’. Ibid, 317

‘of it’, ‘theirs’. Ibid

‘again’. Ibid

‘lot’. Ibid, 323

‘wife’. Ibid

‘set’. Ibid, 324

‘way’. RA GV/CC/35/10, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to Queen Mary, 9 March 1910

‘for me’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 324

‘law’. Ibid, 338–9

‘children’. RA GEO/Add 13/30, Sophia to GP, 5 October 1808

‘by it’. Bickley, Glenbervie, 1, 383–4

‘properly’. RA GEO/Add 15/993, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 30 November 1808

‘sadly’. Ibid

‘taken’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 373

‘adviser’. Ibid

‘wish’. Ibid, 364

‘immaterial’. RA VIC/Add W 3/6, Elizabeth to Dorothea, Lady Banks, nd

‘flaws’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 1 December 1808

CHAPTER 12: PASSION

‘way’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/11, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, nd [before 1808], begins: ‘AFR, I trust I may say your opinion’

‘servants’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/83, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, nd, begins: ‘dear Lord E, how I love him’

‘devils’. RA GEO/Add 13/147, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 6 February 1809

‘flippant’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 10 March 1809

‘swim for them’. RA GEO/Add 13/147, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 6 February 1809

‘dressing’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/11, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, nd, begins: ‘AFR, I trust I may say your opinion’

‘rights’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 180–1

‘inseparable’. Ibid, 173

‘breath …’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/60, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, nd, begins: ‘Oh God, I am almost mad for you’

‘unpleasant’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/51, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, begins: ‘Wed night, I must begin by blessing you’

‘womb’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/14, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, nd, begins: ‘Tell me, my own dear precious darling, Have I done anything you don’t like’

‘name’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/60, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, begins: ‘Oh God, I am almost mad for you’

‘leads to’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/8, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, nd, begins: ‘As I have the pamphlets to send you’

‘longed for’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/11, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, nd, begins: ‘AFR, I trust I may say your opinion’

‘anything’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/8 Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, begins: ‘As I have the pamphlets to send you’

‘give me’. RA GEO/Add 14/1/10, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, begins: ‘My own dear angel, I must begin by telling you my worry …’

‘should be’. Add 14/1/8, Amelia to Charles Fitzroy, nd, begins: ‘As I have the pamphlets to send you’

‘providence’. RA GEO/Add 13/155, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, [1809]

‘assistance’. RA GEO/Add 46/14, Sophia to Sir William Parsons, 14 May 1809

‘skeleton’, ‘illness’. RA GEO/Add 13/149, Sophia to Theresa Villiers, 8 April 1809

‘recover’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 412

‘either’. Ibid

‘pain’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 237

‘meeting’. Bickley, Glenbervie, 2, 23–4

‘her side’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 412–13

‘cure’. Ibid, 414

‘air’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/43, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 17 August 1809

‘remaining’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 5, 319

‘life’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 200

‘speak’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 423

‘better’. Ibid

‘health’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 78

‘water’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 5, 370

‘hide it’. RA VIC/Y 19/37, Amelia to Charlotte Williams, 23 August 1809

‘satisfied’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 5, 333

‘side’. Ibid, 354

‘through’. Ibid, 370

‘roof. Ibid, 333

‘entirely’. Ibid, 352

‘witness’. Ibid, 370

‘distressing’. Ibid, 356

‘issues’. Ibid, 389

‘caustic’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 455

‘nothing’. Ibid, 471

‘recommended’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 5, 436

‘eastward’. Ibid, 411

‘mind’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 478

‘quarter’. Ibid, 479

‘quiet’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, October 1810

‘death’. Ibid

‘Münster [the Hanoverian Minister]’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 516

‘cross words’. Bickley, Glenbervie, 2, 24

‘room’, ‘Weymouth’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 6, 518

‘unfavourable’, ‘case’. Ibid, 517

‘reasonable’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 5, 476

‘grapes’. RA GEO/Add 14/180-90, Matthew Baillie to GIII, letters of May 1810

‘exhaustion’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 5, 590

‘suffering’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 7, 33

‘abhor’. RA GEO/Add 14/176, Amelia to Charlotte Williams, 11 May 1810

‘him’. RA GEO/Add 14/256, plate inventory, 1810

‘locked’. RA GEO/Add 14/168, jewellery invoice, 1809

‘gratitude’, ‘world’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 214–15

‘unparalleled’. LRO/DG24/822/3, Halford Papers, Sir Henry Halford to Mary, with encl (copy) [autumn 1810]

‘regret’. LRO/DG24/822/4, Halford Papers, Amelia to Sir Henry Halford, 9 September 1810 (copy)

‘like’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 7, 48–9

‘account’. LRO/DG24/822/4, Halford Papers, Amelia to Sir Henry Halford, 9 September 1810 (copy)

‘indescribable’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 26 September 1810

‘as I do’. Ibid

‘minute’. Harcourt Mss, Amelia to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, [1810]

‘kindness’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 222–3

‘released’. RA GEO/Add 21/101/50, Elizabeth to Henrietta Finch, 19 October 1810

‘transparent’. Knight, Autobiography, 1, 174

‘to it’. Ibid

‘life’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 26 October 1810

‘sleep’. RA GEO/Add 14/228, Sir Henry Halford to GP, 28 October 1810

‘countenance’. Knight, Autobiography, 1, 174

‘of her’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, October 1810

‘mornings’. Ibid

‘coffin with him’. Ibid

‘to ask’. RA GEO/Add 14/289, J. D. Bridges, Memorandum, [1810]

‘sounds’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 6 November 1810

‘Queen’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, 2 November 1810

‘wishes’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 227

‘tear’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 6 November 1810

‘hear’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 7, 67, n1

‘time’. Ibid, 65–6, n1

‘illness’. RA GEO/Add 15/1027, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, c 2 November 1810

‘under them’. Buckingham, George III, 4, 462–3

‘rank’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 145–6

‘Amelia’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 7, 67, n1

‘insanity’. Munk, Halford, 143

‘purpose’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 7, 73

‘to me’. Aspinall, Later Correspondence, 5, 607

‘blindness’. HMC, Fortescue, 10, 60

‘her’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 6 November 1810

‘right’. RA GEO/Add 10/121, Augusta to Anna Maria Adams, [1810]

‘grief. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 6 November 1810

‘believe it’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 9 November 1810

‘taken off. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 146

‘Prince’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, November 1810

‘tears’. RA GEO/Add 15/1030, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 5 January 1811

CHAPTER 13: BREAKING UP

‘of dress’. RA GEO/Add 14/270, Inventory taken … 1 December 1810

‘apartments’. RA GEO/Add 14/278, Theresa Villiers to Charles Bicknell, 10 December 1810

‘poor’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, November 1810

‘confidence’. Colchester, Diary, 2, 293

‘shock’. Aspinall, Correspondence, 7, 67-8 n1

‘despair’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/75, Elizabeth to Anna Maria Adams, 15 December 1810

‘mind’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/78, Elizabeth to Anna Maria Adams, 20 December 1810

‘might’, ‘like’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/68, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 26 November 1810

‘nerves is’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/74, Elizabeth to Anna Maria Adams, 14 December 1810

‘alive’. Colchester, Diary, 2, 308

‘manner’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 152

‘dexterity’, ‘not so good’. Harcourt, George Rose, 2, 474–5

‘life’. Macalpine and Hunter, Mad-business, 155

‘calmness’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/107, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, c 5 February 1811

‘recovering’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, 6 February 1811

‘formerly’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, 20 May 1811, and Phipps, Plumer Ward, 1, 344

‘door’. RA, Princess Mary’s Reports to PR, 21 May 1811

‘help trade’. RA, Princess Mary’s Reports to PR, May 1811

‘sick room’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/94, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, May 1811

‘boxes, etc’. RA GEO/50262-4, General Herbert Taylor’s Memorandum, 23 December 1811

‘key’. Ibid

‘daughter’. Buckingham and Chandos, Regency, 1, 102

‘situation’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/94, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, May 1811

meditated. RA GEO/Add 15/882, Mary to Sir Henry Halford, 4 June 1811

‘worse’. RA, Princess Mary’s Reports to PR, 1812

‘time’. RA, GEO/Add 12/116, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, June 1811

‘voice’. Ibid

‘dull’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 1

‘reason’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/95, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 19 July 1811

‘hour’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/109, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 8 August 1811

‘know me’. RA GEO/Add 10/46, Augusta to Charlotte Williams, 15 August 1811

‘stillness’. Knight, Volume of Varieties, 78

‘mind’. RA GEO/Add 15/874, Sir Henry Halford’s Diary, 6 December 1811

‘evening’. RA, Princess Mary’s Reports to PR, 1812

‘upon it’. RA GEO/Add 15/874, Sir Henry Halford’s Diary, 17 October 1811

‘disagreed’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/101, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 9 November 1811

‘Saturday’. Harcourt Mss, Mary to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 20 October 1811

‘Quadrangle’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 10 October 1811

‘reduced’. Ibid

‘ears’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 23 October 1811

‘castle’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 12

‘otherwise’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 23 October 1811

‘heart’. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/1 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 19 November 1811

‘world’. RA GEO/Add 15/874, Sir Henry Halford’s Diary, 2 December 1811

‘state’. RA, Princess Mary’s Reports to PR, 20 January 1812

‘Yes’. RA GEO/Add 15/874, Sir Henry Halford’s Diary, 4 January 1812, Proposed questions …

‘together’. RA GEO/Add 13/51, Sophia to PR, 12 December 1811

‘of us’. RA, Princess Mary’s Reports to PR, 2 January 1812

‘gratified’. RA GEO/Add 21/88/86, William Fremantle’s draft speech, 22 March 1812

‘account’. RA GEO/Add 13/52, Sophia to PR, March 1812

‘myself. RA GEO/Add 10/50, Augusta to PR, 23 January 1812

‘heart’. RA GEO/Add 15/1037, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 29 February 1812

‘conduct’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 9 January 1812

‘bilious’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 12 February 1812

‘to us’. RA GEO/Add 15/1037, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 29 February 1812

‘thought of. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 23 January 1812

‘happiness’. RA GEO/Add 10/56, Augusta to PR, 5 March 1812

‘for us’. RA GEO/Add 10/51, Augusta to PR, 2 April 1812

‘criticized’. RA GEO/Add 10/52, Queen Charlotte to Princesses, 2 April 1812

‘footing’. RA GEO/Add 10/51, Augusta to PR, 2 April 1812

‘looks’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/123, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 9 June 1812

‘large’. Ibid

‘yourself…’. RA GEO/Add 10/55, Augusta to PR, 12 June 1812

‘character’. RA GEO/Add 10/56, Augusta to PR, 5 March 1812

‘married’. Walker, Miniatures: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, 167–8

‘right’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/123, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 9 June 1812

‘life’. RL, Miss Lucy Kennedy’s Diary, 30 April 1811 [12]

‘subdued’, ‘fever’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/118, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 3 January 1812

‘sick’. Ibid

‘saw him’. Colvin, Maria Edgeworth, 127

‘nervous’. LRO/DG24/844, Sophia’s correspondence with Sir Henry Halford

‘overcome’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/122, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 15 May 1812

‘monster’. Ibid

‘overset’. RA GEO/Add 15/1038, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 26 May 1812

‘children’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/122, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 15 May 1812

‘hand and pen’. RA GEO/Add 15/1037, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 29 February 1812

‘idea’. RA GEO/Add 15/1038, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 26 May 1812

‘bedrooms’. RA GEO/Add 15/1039, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 13 June 1812

‘visit her’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/124, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 28 June 1812

‘uncertainties’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 30

‘fled’. Ibid, 27

‘games’. Ibid, 19

‘everybody’. Ibid, 28

‘heart’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/64, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 12 July 1812

‘repeater’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 33

‘loves’. Ibid, 32

‘round’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/126, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 24 August 1812

‘older’. Ibid

‘cold’. RA, Princess Mary’s Reports to GP, 1813

‘without end’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/116, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, June 1811

‘upon’. RA GEO/Add 15/49694-5, Mary to PR, 21 December [1812]

‘there’. Stuart, Daughters, 223

‘yet’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 38

‘place’. Ibid, 37

‘best’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/117, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 27 November 1812

‘scene’. RA GEO/Add 10/57, Augusta to PR, 2 December 1812

‘please’. RA GEO/36622-3, Queen Charlotte to PR, 2 December 1812

‘met with’. RA GEO/Add 10/57, Augusta to PR, 2 December 1812

‘mind’. Ibid

‘mind it’. RA GEO/Add 12/191, Mary to PR, 7 December 1812

‘most deeply’. RA GEO/Add 10/57, Augusta to PR, 2 December 1812

‘humour’. RA GEO/Add 12/190, Mary to PR, 6 December 1812

‘at all’. RA GEO/Add 12/193, Mary to PR, 9 December 1812

‘towards us’. RA GEO/Add 10/59, Augusta and sisters to PR, c 12 December 1812

‘famous for’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/138, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 29 December [?1812]

‘Christmas day’. RA GEO/Add 21/101/41, Mary to Henrietta Finch, 10 December [1812]

‘low’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/141, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, [1812]

CHAPTER 14: EMANCIPATION

‘arrangements’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/147, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, January 1813

‘direcdy’. RA GEO/49725-6, Elizabeth to PR, 11 January 1813

‘Charlotte’. RA GEO/49749-50, Mary to PR, 19 January 1813

‘trifles’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 51

‘everything’. Ibid, 52

‘before’. Ibid

‘doings’. RA GEO/Add 23/8, Unknown to William Frederick, 6 January 1813

‘amorous’, ‘foolish’. RA VIC/QVJ, 1 August 1838

‘death’. RA GEO/Add 12/196, Mary to PR, 25 January [1813]

‘stand’. Ibid

‘influence’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 71

‘England’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 21 May 1814

‘thank God’. RA GEO/Add 10/63, Augusta to Sir Henry Halford, 2 May 1813

‘adoration’. RA GEO/Add 12/197, Mary to PR, 18 February 1813

‘together’. Ibid

faut. RA GEO(M)/Add 21/91/2 (Fr), Queen Charlotte to Duke Charles, 2 April 1813

‘was’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/160, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 1 November 1813

‘shyness’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/154, Elizabeth to Anna Maria Adams, 16 May 1813

‘intended’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/155, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 18 May 1813

‘folly’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/154, Elizabeth to Anna Maria Adams, 16 May 1813

‘by and by’. RA GEO/Add 15/1046, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 19 May 1813

‘HRHs’. RA GEO/Add 15/1048, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 11 June 1813

‘that’s all’. RA GEO/Add 15/1051, Elizabeth to Augusta Compton, 8 August [1813]

‘meddle’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 67

‘violent’. Ibid, 55

‘front’. Ibid, 72

‘else’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 65

‘over’. Ibid, 78

‘glorious’. Ibid, 80

‘true’. Ibid, 92, 95

‘married’. Ibid, 97

‘advice’. Ibid

‘faces’. Ibid

‘used’. Ibid, 102

‘strength’. Ibid, 99

‘me’. Ibid 105–6

‘cough’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 21 May 1814

‘ferociously’. RA GEO/Add 15/8180, Elizabeth to Sophia Feilding, 11 June 1814

‘conduct’. RA GEO/51774-5, Royal to PR, 30 June 1814

‘end’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 118

‘interfere’. RA GEO/Add 21/122/12, Lord Liverpool to Princess of Wales, 28 July 1814

‘low’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 135

‘pleasure’. RA GEO/Add 12/207, Mary to PR, 27 July 1814

‘lovely’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 131

‘impossible’. Ibid, 144

‘inaccessible’. Ibid

‘subjected’. Ibid

‘settled’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 16 March 1814

‘agreed’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 145

‘cat’s paw’. Ibid

‘sulks’. Ibid, 147

‘again’. Ibid, 146

‘certainly’. Ibid, 149

‘else’. Ibid, 153

‘of him’. Ibid, 151

‘that kind’. Ibid, 152, 154–5

‘the way’. Ibid, 161

‘overstrained’. Ibid, 165

‘of him’. Ibid, 180

‘quiet’. Ibid, 191

‘quarantine’. RA GEO/Add 22/92, Sophia to Princess Charlotte, late 1815

‘firm’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 191–2

‘miserable’. Ibid, 193

‘Dutch man’. Ibid

‘year’. Aspinall, Letters, 2, 45

‘difficulties’. RA GEO/Add 12/214, Mary to PR, 18 September [1815]

‘letter’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 4 September [1815]

‘world’. RA GEO/Add 12/238, Mary to PR, 3 September [1815]

‘err’. RA GEO/Add 9/188, Elizabeth to Augustus, 3 September 1815

‘concur’. RA GEO/Add 10/70, Augusta to PR, 28 August 1815

‘myself’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 209–10

‘mine’. Aspinall, Letters, 1, 515—23

‘bosom’. RA GEO/49888-9, Princess Charlotte to Mary, 26 December 1814

qui vive’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 210—11

‘happy’. Ibid, 212

‘I believe’. Ibid, 207

‘Austin’. Ibid, 217

‘perfect’. RA GEO/Add 12/261, Mary to PR, 6 February 1816

‘starved’. RA GEO/Add 21/101/34, Augusta to Henrietta Finch, 29 December 1815

‘down’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 224

‘fine lace’. Ibid, 221

‘people’. Ibid, 224

‘married’. Ibid, 235

‘about her’. Ibid, 237

‘awkwardness’, ‘animals’. Ibid 242–3

‘nearly’. Ibid, 243

‘fainted’. Childe-Pemberton, Princess Amelia, 296—7

‘cheeks’. Twiss, Lord Eldon, 2, 284

‘Smelt’. RA, Princess Mary’s Reports to GP, 1813

‘distress’. RA GEO/Add 21/64, Mary to Helena Trench, née Perceval, 21 June 1816

‘happiness’. RA GEO/Add 21/65, Augusta to Helena Trench, 23 June 1816

‘situation’. RA GEO/Add 12/274, Mary to PR, 14 July 1816

‘can now’. RA GEO/Add 12/276, Mary to PR, 20 July 1816

‘occasions’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 243

‘tiresome’. Ibid, 245

‘with him’. Ibid

CHAPTER 15: DAUGHTERS IN DISTRESS

‘state’. RA GEO/Add 12/282, Mary to PR, 29 September 1816

‘heart’. RA GEO/Add 12/278, Mary to PR, 26 July 1816

‘supper’. RA GEO/Add 15/1064, Elizabeth to Augusta Baynes, née Compton, 26 September 1816

‘park’. RA GEO/Add 12/278, Mary to PR, 26 July 1816

‘Offices’. RA GEO/Add 12/283, Mary to PR, 8 October 1816

‘married me’. RA GEO/Add 21/101/18, Mary to Henrietta Finch, 4 October 1816

‘family’. RA GEO/Add 12/305, Mary to PR, 3 December [1817]

‘very much’. RA GEO/Add 21/101/18, Mary to Henrietta Finch, 4 October 1816

‘ago’. RA GEO/Add 12/286, Mary to PR, 2 November 1816

‘gone’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 29 November 1816

‘can be’. Aspinall, Princess Charlotte, 246

‘life’. RA GEO/51808, Royal to PR, 12 February 1817

‘trade’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 23 May 1817

‘dying’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 29 November 1816

‘mind’. Ibid

‘grave’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 23 May 1817

‘heart’. Ibid

‘fortune’. Aspinall, Letters, 2, 171

‘grandfather’. RA GEO/51809, Royal to PR, 12 August 1817

‘ceremony’. Bury, Diary, 2, 272

‘subject’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 19 September 1817

‘delightful’. RA GEO/Add 12/297, Mary to PR, 26 October 1817

‘figures’. RA GEO/Add 15/1066, Elizabeth to Augusta Baynes, 24 August 1817

‘Charlotte’. RA GEO/50048-9, Elizabeth to [?Sir Benjamin Bloomfield], 6 November 1817

‘blow’. Ibid

‘dreadful shock’. Harcourt, Papers, 6, 265

‘completely shocked’. RA GEO/50048-9, Elizabeth to [?Sir Benjamin Bloomfield], 6 November 1817

‘child’. Brougham, Memoirs, 2, 332

‘deep affliction’. Aspinall, Letters, 2, 213

‘afresh’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 8 November 1817

‘severe affliction’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 13 November 1817

‘over’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 19 November 1817

‘false’. Ibid

‘Paradise’. Harcourt Mss, Queen Charlotte to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 11 November 1817

‘face’. RA GEO/Add 12/309, Mary to PR, 23 December [1817]

‘day’. Holme, Prinny’s Daughter, 241

‘delicacy’. RA GEO/Add 21/179/159, PR to Lord Eldon, 1 January 1817

‘daughter’. RCP, Hunter-Baillie Mss, 8, Princess of Wales to Matthew Baillie, 2 December 1817 (copy)

‘meeting’. RA GEO/Add 46/48, Sophia Beckedorff to Lady Parsons, 12 November 1817

‘altered’. RA GEO/Add 12/307, Mary to PR, 11 December 1817

‘hasp’. RA GEO/Add 12/311, Mary to PR, 18 January 1818

‘usually do’. RA GEO/Add 15/1075, Elizabeth to Augusta Baynes, 7 January 1818

‘death’. RA GEO/Add 12/312, Mary to PR, 23 January 1818

‘leaving her’. RA GEO/Add 12/314, Mary to PR, 29 January 1818

‘shone’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 16 November 1825

‘object’. RA GEO/Add 13/63, Sophia to PR, 30 January 1818

‘manner’. RA GEO/Add 12/316, Mary to PR, February 1818

‘under it’. RA GEO/Add 12/317, Mary to PR, 3 February 1818

‘manifested’. RA GEO/Add 13/60, Sophia to PR, 5 February 1818

‘decision’. Ibid

‘should’. RA GEO/Add 13/62, Sophia to PR, 16 February 1818

‘world’. RA VIC/A 8/2204, Elizabeth to Jane Gomm, 20 February 1818

‘stupid’. RA VIC/M 45/26 (Ger), Augusta, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg to Dowager Princess of Leiningen, 13 February 1818

‘sous-lieutenant’. O’Meara, Napoleon, 372–3

cleaned. Hesse-Homburg papers, Fritz to Christian Jacobi, February 1818

‘imagined’. Maxwell, Creevey Papers, 1, 276–7

‘pang’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 12 June 1818

‘quarrel’. RA GEO/Add 10/94, Augusta to Lord Arran, 7 July 1818

‘others’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 2 September 1818

‘night’. PML, Rulers of England, Box 13b, Mary to Lady Charlotte Belasyse, 16 February 1820

‘carriage’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 2 September 1818

‘appearing there’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 4 August 1818

‘death’. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, 294

‘prolonged’. NYPL, Berg Col, Elizabeth to Fanny Burney, 8 November 1818

‘improvements’. NYPL, Berg Col, Mary to Fanny Burney, 11 December 1818

‘danger’, ‘to them’. RA GEO/50343-4, Sir Herbert Taylor to PR, 31 October 1818

‘effect’, ‘asleep’. Ibid

‘signed it’. RA GEO/50353-65, Sir Herbert Taylor’s Memorandum, 17 November 1818

‘Windsor’. Ibid

‘for her’. RA GEO/Add 7/1332, Augusta to Edward, 23 November 1818

‘King’. RA GEO/Add 10/75, Augusta to PR, 31 October 1818

‘judgement’. RA GEO/Add 7/1332, Augusta to Edward, 23 November 1818

‘worlds’. Ibid

‘room’. Harcourt Mss, Elizabeth to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 4 August 1818

CHAPTER 16: PRINCESSES AT LARGE

‘here’. RA GEO/Add 7/1334-5, Augusta to Edward, 30 November 1818

‘fumbling’. RA GEO/Add 12/324, Mary to PR, 7 December 1818

‘comfort’. RA GEO/Add 13/65, Sophia to PR, 18 November 1818

‘wish’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 4 January 1819

‘with pleasure’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 4 February 1819

‘her pleasure’. RA GEO/50375-6, Sir Herbert Taylor’s Instructions to Mr Nichol

‘plate’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 4 February 1819

‘low’. Ibid

‘spirits’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 22 February 1819

‘time’. Aspinall, Letters, 2, 298–9

‘my own’. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 22 March 1819

‘I am’. Ibid

‘German’. RA GEO/51812-3, Royal to Adolphus, 29 March 1819

‘wonderful’. RA GEO/Add 21/1/70, Augusta to William, 17 May 1819

‘occasion’. RA GEO/Add 7/1334-5, Augusta to Edward, 30 November, 17 December 1818

‘removed’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/2, Augustus to Ernest, 5 April 1819

‘much’. RA GEO/Add 15/1079, Elizabeth to Augusta Baynes, 30 March 1819

‘hands’. RA VIC/Y 19/22, Edward to William Townsend Aiton, 11 August 1819

‘made it’. NYPL, Berg Col, Fanny Burney to Augusta, 12 August 1819

‘high spirits’. RA GEO/Add 12/329, Mary to PR, 19 August 1819

‘Windsor’. RA GEO/Add 12/333, Mary to PR, 10 September 1819

‘occasion’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 30 July 1819

‘strength’. RA GEO/Add 12/328, Mary to PR, 12 August 1819

‘ornament’. RA GEO/Add 13/64, Sophia to PR, 10 November 1819

‘rather not’. RA GEO/Add 12/332, Mary to PR, 3 September 1819

‘else’. RA GEO/Add 12/339, Mary to PR, 10 November 1819

‘court’. RA GEO/Add 12/335, Mary to PR, 26 September 1819

‘be you’. RA GEO/Add 12/337, Mary to PR, 3 October 1819

‘ball’. RA GEO/Add 12/343, Mary to PR, 3 December 1819

‘without you’. RA GEO/Add 12/345, Mary to PR, 6 December 1819

‘music’. RA GEO/Add 12/353, Mary to PR, 16 January 1820

‘sadly’. RA GEO/Add 12/356, Mary to PR, 23 January 1820

‘appearance’. RA GEO/Add 12/355, Mary to PR, 20 January 1820

‘countenance’. Ibid

‘heart’. RA GEO/Add 12/358, Mary to PR, 27 January 1820

‘shocked’. Ibid

‘with her’. RA GEO/Add 12/357, Mary to PR, 24 January 1820

‘sad thing’. RA GEO/Add 11/324, Elizabeth to PR [GIV], 30 January 1820

‘melancholy’. RA GEO/Add 12/358, Mary to PR, 27 January 1820

‘suffer’. RA GEO/Add 12/361, Mary to PR, 28 January 1820

‘disease’. RA GEO/Add 9/192, Augusta to Augustus, [27 January 1820]

‘yesterday’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 25-26 January 1820

‘by it’. Harcourt Mss, Augusta to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 4 February 1820

‘carriages’. RA GEO/Add 12/368, Mary to PR, now GIV, 13 February 1820

‘town’. RA GEO/Add 12/355, Mary to PR, 20 January 1820

‘dinner’. RA GEO/Add 12/364, Mary to PR, now GIV, February 1820

‘him’. RA GEO/Add 11/325, Elizabeth to GIV, 6 February 1820

‘must be’. Ibid

‘anybody’. RA GEO/Add 12/351, Mary to PR, 6 January 1820

‘ties’. The Examiner, 19 March 1812

‘years’. RA GEO/Add 13/67, Sophia to PR, now GIV, 2 February 1820

‘enough’. RA GEO/Add 12/374, Mary to GIV, 7 March 1820

‘life’. Ibid

‘right’. RA GEO/Add 12/378, Mary to GIV, 17 March 1820

‘mischief. Harcourt Mss, Royal to Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, 20 April 1820

‘inducement’. RA GEO/Add 13/68, Sophia to GIV, 12 March 1820

‘home’. Ibid

‘room’. RA GEO/Add 12/376, Mary to GIV, 12 March 1820

‘her own way’. RA GEO/Add 12/386, Mary to GIV, 11 April 1820

‘defend us’. RA GEO/Add 12/379, Mary to GIV, 20 March 1820

‘Silly Billy’. Brownlow, Eve of Victorianism, 195

‘burnt’. RA GEO/Add 12/382, Mary to GIV, 28 March 1820

‘come’. RA GEO/Add 12/389, Mary to GIV, 12 June 1820

‘Wood’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/9, Augusta to Ernest, 17 December 1820

‘Bedlamite’. Bamford and Wellington, Mrs Arbuthnot, 1,53

‘hold’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/9, Augusta to Ernest, 17 December 1820

‘fagged’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/10, Augusta to Ernest, 8 May 1821

‘event’. Jennings, Croker Papers, 1, 201

‘with it’. RA GEO/Add 12/393, Mary to GIV, 18 August 1821

‘society’. Ibid

CHAPTER 17: ROYAL – QUEENLY DOWAGER

the King. RA GEO/52484-5 (Fr), Elizabeth to Fritz, 24 December 1820

‘never well’. RA GEO/52488-9 (Fr), Elizabeth to Fritz, 28 December 1820

‘brother’. RA GEO/52484-5 (Fr), Elizabeth to Fritz, 24 December 1820

‘please’. RA GEO/52480-1 (Fr), Elizabeth to Fritz, 21 December 1820

‘endure it’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/10, Augusta to Ernest, 8 May 1821

‘smoke’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/9, Augusta to Ernest, 17 December 1820

‘dust’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/10, Augusta to Ernest, 8 May 1821

‘one family’. Hudson, Royal Conflict, 72

‘to me?’. RA GEO/Add 12/410, Royal to Mary, 26 November 1824

‘wrong’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/10, Augusta to Ernest, 8 May 1821

‘picturesque’. NYPL, Berg Col, Elizabeth to Fanny Burney, 21 April 1819

‘eyes’. RA GEO/Add 12/2/131, Mary to Anna Maria Adams, 6 October 1821

‘world’. Ibid

‘pleasant’. RA GEO/Add 10/87, Augusta to Adolphus, 26 March 1824

‘attendants’. RA GEO/Add 12/410, Royal to Mary, 26 November 1824

‘dances’. Ibid

‘piano’. RA GEO/51820, Royal to Adolphus, 24 March 1824

‘you’. RA VIC/Z 480/149, Sophia to Victoria, 3 September 1824

‘dog’. RA GEO/Add 15/8062, Ernest to Thomas Hughes, 29 March 1825

‘d’Arblay’. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 11, 510

‘good’. RA GEO/Add 12/422, GIV to Mary, 23 July 1826

‘reception’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/118, Augusta to Frances Garth, [1825]

known. YCBA, Ephemera Col (T395.5 G74E87 1833+), Extraordinary Exhibition! Under the Patronage of HRH the Princess Augustathe Industrious Fleas etc ?1833]

‘right’. RA GEO/Add 10/97, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 1 September 1826

‘my life’. RA GEO/Add 10/99, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 13 September 1826

‘indeed’. RA GEO/Add 10/100, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 28 September 1826

before. Hemlow, Burney Journals, 11, 111n

theatres. Harcourt Mss, Verses, ‘A Word to the Wise’, by Elizabeth, Lady Harcourt, December 1792

‘Legacy’. Russell, Thomas Moore, 8, 203

‘George IV. Ibid, 4, 193

‘rooms’. RA GEO/Add 10/99, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 13 September 1826

‘too well’. RA GEO/Add 13/71, Sophia to GIV, 18 January 1827

‘receive’. RA GEO/Add 13/72, Sophia to Lady John Thynne, 18 January [1827]

‘greenhouses’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/11, Augusta to Ernest, 20 April 1827

‘wild’, ‘bridge’. RA GEO/51825-6, Royal to Augusta, 25 March 1827

‘woman’. RA GEO/5 1827-8, Royal to GIV, 25 March 1827

‘servants’, ‘astonished’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/12, Augusta to Ernest, 5 July 1827

‘credible’. Ibid

‘wax, etc’. RA GEO/Add 10/103, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 25 July 1827

‘out of it’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/12, Augusta to Ernest, 26 July 1827

wig. Home, Lady Louisa Stuart, 75

‘with her’. RA VIC/Add U 72/4, Mary to Charlotte, Duchess of Northumberland, 18 August [1827]

‘new life’. RA GEO/Add 10/104, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 3 August 1827

‘Brighton’, ‘moonlight’. RA GEO/Add 10/104, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 3 August 1827

‘in them’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/13, Augusta to Ernest, [between 20 and 27 September 1827]

Pauline. Home, Lady Louisa Stuart, 131

‘again’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/13, Augusta to Ernest, [between 20 and 27 September 1827]

‘occurring’. RA VIC/Z 480/155, Sophia to Victoria, 29 September 1827

‘return’. RA GEO/Add 13/80, Sophia to Lady Louisa Murray, 28 October [1827?]

‘delights.’ RA GEO/Add 10/106, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 12 December 1827

‘melancholy’. Ibid

‘manner’. RA GEO/Add 10/107, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 27 December 1827

‘hot rooms’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/14, Augusta to Ernest, 7 January 1828

‘safety’. Ibid

‘torture and misery’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/15, Augusta to Ernest, 16 October 1828

some hours. Home, Lady Louisa Stuart, 131

times. Disbrowe, Old Days, 179

‘years…’. RA GEO/Add 13/80, Sophia to Lady Louisa Murray, 28 October [1828]

‘offence’. RA GEO/Add 21/88/152, Augusta to Sir William Fremande, 24 December 1828

‘country’. RA GEO/Add 23/52, Mary to Louise, Lady Currey, end 1836

‘Park’. Ibid

‘friends …’. United Service Journal, (1829) 2, 83–8

happy. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, 130–45

‘words?’. RA VIC/Z 480/155, Sophia to Victoria, 29 September [1828]

‘near me’. Ibid

‘lady’. RA VIC/PP 1/80/3, Captain Thomas Garth to George, 25 November 1862

Georgiana back. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, 130–45

‘flower-garden’. RA VIC/LB 1/30, Victoria to Sophia, 3 August 1829

‘much’. RA VIC/LB 1/36, Victoria to Sophia, 1829

boil. RA VIC/LB 1/39, Victoria to Sophia, 6 September 1829

‘time to me’. RA VIC/Z 480/157, Victoria to Sophia, 4 November 1829

‘purpose’. RA VIC/Z 480/156, Sophia to Victoria, 5 October 1829

death. Parissien, George IV, 7

‘King’. The Times, 16 July 1830

CHAPTER 18: ELIZABETH – THE LARGESSE OF A LANDGRAVINE

‘heart’. RA GEO/Add 11/346, Elizabeth to Sir William Knighton, 23 August 1829

‘produce’. Stuart, Daughters, 193

‘anyone’. RA GEO/Add 11/349a, Elizabeth to GIV, 25 April 1830

‘for me’. RA GEO/Add 11/351, Elizabeth to Sir William Knighton, 1 June 1830

‘death’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 130–1

‘society’. Ibid

‘to me’. Ibid

‘fixed’. Ibid

‘possible’. RA GEO/Add 39/575, Lord Munster to Mary, 24 November 1832, draft

‘in it’. Jennings, Croker Papers, 2, 113

‘horror …’. RA GEO/Add 11/333, Elizabeth to GIV, 22 December 1821

‘peu à peu’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 190

‘perfect’. Trollope, Frances Trollope, 191–2

‘time’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 162

‘kind’. Ibid

‘house …’. Ibid, 151

‘assist’. Ibid, 155

‘advice’. RA VIC/Add A 8/503a, Mary to Gussy, 1833

‘expected’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 179

‘improper’, ‘cows’. Ibid, 178

‘parties’. Ibid, 195

‘usual’. RA GEO/Add 15/8081, RichardJelf to Thomas Hughes, 10 October 1832

‘himself.’ Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 196–7

‘carriages’. RA VIC/Z 480/159, Sophia to Victoria, 14 January 1832

‘eye’. RA GEO/Add 13/75, Sophia to Adolphus, 27 January 1832

‘worst’. Ibid

‘drawback’. RA VIC/Z 480/164, Sophia to Victoria, 12 September 1832

‘swimming’. RA VIC/LB 4/1, Victoria to Sophia, 1833

‘always’. RA VIC/LB 3/36, Victoria to Sophia, 1833

‘curly’. RA VIC/LB 4/10, Victoria to Sophia, 1833

‘washerwoman’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 192, n1

‘of her’. RA GEO/Add 21/196, Elizabeth to Edward Harding, 15 June 1833

‘well’, ‘Box’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 228–9

‘killed’. Ibid, 255–6

‘Buckinghamshire’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/17, Augusta to Ernest, 14 October 1834

‘head’. Jennings, Croker Papers, 2, 250

‘love them’. RA VIC/QVJ, 2 December 1834

‘lived’. RA GEO/Add 23/38, Elizabeth to Louise, Lady Currey, 13 December 1834

‘than him’. RA VIC/QVJ, 4 May 1857

‘in him’. RA GEO/Add 23/35, Elizabeth to Louise, Lady Currey, 2 December 1834

‘above’. RA VIC/Z 480/174, Sophia to Victoria, 25 December 1834

‘cap’. RA VIC/QVJ, 1 February 1835

‘strength’. RA VIC/Z 480/176, Sophia to Victoria, 26 August [1835]

‘down hill’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 273

‘order’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/118, Augusta to Frances Garth, [1825]

‘arm’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/16, Augusta to Ernest, 2 October 1833

‘Sir J.C. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 March 1838

‘anyone’. RA VIC/QVJ, 21 January 1839

‘stuff. Hudson, Royal Conflict, 83

‘ear’. RA VIC/QVJ, 26 February 1836

‘of all’. RA VIC/LB 32/15, Victoria to Sophia, 6 November 1836

‘Clarence’. Hesse-Homburg Papers, Christian Jacobi to Frau Jacobi, 29 June 1836

‘fog’. Ibid

‘deeds’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 278

‘spirits’. RA VIC/LB 29/8, Victoria to Sophia, 1 September 1836

‘well’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/17, Augusta to Ernest, 3 February 1835

‘delirious’. RA VIC/QVJ, 10 January 1837

‘amusingly’. RA VIC/QVJ, 24 April 1837

‘country’. RA VIC/Z 480/191, Sophia to Queen Victoria, 26 June 1837

‘others’. RA VIC/Z 480/198, Sophia to Queen Victoria, 16 August [1837]

‘spoilt with’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 321

‘manner’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/22, Augusta to Ernest, 26 June 1837

‘Ministers’. RA GEO/Add 23/54, Mary to Louise, Lady Currey, July 1837

evening. RA VIC/QVJ, 24 September 1837

‘acquaintance’. RA VIC/Y 19/95, Mary to Queen Louise, 5 January 1838

‘high-shouldered’. RA VIC/QVJ, 6 November 1837

‘of us’. RA VIC/Y 19/95, Mary to Queen Louise, 5 January 1838

‘funny.’ RA VIC/QVJ, 19 January 1838

‘away’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 November 1837

‘situation’. RA VIC/Y 19/90, Mary to Queen Louise, 3 July 1837

‘for her’. RA GEO/Add 21/88/181, Augusta to Sir William Fremande, 22 December 1837

‘robes’. RA VIC/QVJ, 12 February 1838

‘disheartened’. Ibid

‘with me …’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/27, Mary to Ernest, 30 August [1838]

‘country’. RA VIC/C 58/7 and 7a, Augusta to Sir Benjamin Stephenson, 27 April 1838, 7 July 1838

dinner. RA VIC/QVJ, 2 May 1838

‘at last’. RA VIC/QVJ, 5 July 1838

‘windows out’. RA VIC/QVJ, 13 July 1838

‘civility’. RA VIC/QVJ, 14 July 1838

‘way’, ‘friends’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/27, Mary to Ernest, 13 and 24 July [1838]

‘pied-à-terre’. Stuart, Daughters, 195

‘ladies’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 323

‘natives’, ‘contretemps’. Ibid, 330

‘Gothick screens’. Stuart, Daughters, 197

‘well … with her’. Ibid, 196

‘does’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 328

moi’. Ibid, 332

‘waters’. Ibid, 336

‘over’. Ibid, 353

‘concerns’. RA GEO/Add 15/454, Elizabeth to Augusta Hicks, 15 December 1838

‘amusements’. RA VIC/Add W 5/13, Elizabeth to Sir Samuel Higgins, 15 June 1839

‘wild’. Ibid

‘Louis’. Ibid

‘about’. RA VIC/Z 480/74, Elizabeth to Queen Victoria, 26 June 1839

‘useless’. Stuart, Daughters, 199

‘suffering’. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 January 1840

‘shawls’. RA GEO/Add 11/352, Elizabeth’s will, 12 February 1830

‘either’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/31, Mary to Ernest, 3 March 1840

CHAPTER 19: AUGUSTA – A PRINCESS FOR ALL SEASONS

‘affected’. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 January 1840

‘curtsy’. Stuart, Daughters, 199

‘life’. Ibid

‘do so’. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 January 1840

‘married’. RA VIC/Y 19/96, Mary to Queen Louise, 17 September 1839

‘friend’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/24, Augusta to Ernest, 21 February 1839

‘Queens’. RA VIC/Y 19/96, Mary to Queen Louise, 17 September 1839

‘thing’. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Diary, 2, 115

liberty. Longford, Victoria RI, 134

‘difficulty …’. RA VIC/LB 101/1, Queen Victoria to Mary, 2 February 1840

‘ago’. RA VIC/A 31/750, Ernest to Sir Frederick Watson, 20 February 1840

‘Brighton’, ‘write’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 April 1840

‘imagination’. Ibid

‘family’. RA VIC/Z 480/51, Augusta to Queen Victoria, [1840]

‘en passant’. RA VIC/Z 480/56, Augusta to Queen Victoria, 22 May 1839

‘ought to be’. RA VIC/Add C 12/17, Augusta to Sir Henry Whately, 15 July 1839

‘think’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/23, Augusta to Ernest, 3 October 1838

‘book’. RA VIC/Add A 8/2B, Augusta to Mary Adelaide, 17 November 1838

‘Augusta’. RA VIC/Z 480/66, Augusta to Queen Victoria, 22 May 1840

‘bed’. RA VIC/Z 480/53, Augusta to Queen Victoria, 3 February 1839

‘worst’. RA GEO/Add 10/120, Morning Herald, 2 July 1840

‘look at’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/112, Augusta to Frances Garth, 4 October 1823

‘walk’. Ibid

‘yew’. Piickler-Muskau, Tour, 4, 153

‘variety’. Gardener’s Magazine, 4 (1828), 176–7

better. RA GEO/Add 21/8/118, Augusta to Frances Garth, [autumn 1825]

‘feelings sadly’. RA GEO/Add 10/111, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 11 November 1829

‘verdure’. RA GEO/Add 10/110, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 1 October 1829

‘turf’. Gardener’s Magazine, 4 (1828), 433–7

‘admirably’. Ibid, 5 (1829), 570–1

‘night’. RA GEO/Add 10/98, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 9 September 1826

‘sanctum’. Ibid

‘for me’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/112, Augusta to Frances Garth, 4 October 1823

‘head?’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/114, Augusta to Frances Garth, 4 December 1823

‘constitution’. RA VIC/MP, 122/95, Sir Henry Halford to Lord Melbourne, 27 August 1840

information. RA VIC/C 3/60, Queen Victoria to Lord Melbourne, 27 August 1840

Windsor. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Memoirs, 4, 289

‘awake’. RA VIC/MP 122/99, Sir Henry Halford to Lord Melbourne, September 1840

‘nourishment’. RA VIC/MP 122/104, Sir Henry Halford to Lord Melbourne, 16 September 1840

‘afternoon’. RA VIC/C 3/61, Queen Victoria to Lord Melbourne, ?30 August 1840

‘direcdy’. RA VIC/C 3/64, Queen Victoria to Lord Melbourne, 21 September 1840

‘touching’. RA VIC/Y 90/2, Queen Victoria to Leopold, 26 September 1840

‘so long’. RA VIC/C 3/65, Queen Victoria to Lord Melbourne, 22 September 1840

‘everything’. RA VIC/QVJ, 22 September 1840

‘family’. RA VIC/Y 67/8, Leopold to Queen Victoria, 1 October 1840

CHAPTER 20: SOPHIA – THE LITTLE GYPSY

‘couch-pillows’. Stuart, Daughters, 314

‘wearied’. Murray, Recollections, 70

‘as ever’. Ibid, 71

‘gypsy’. Esher, Girlhood of Queen Victoria, 1, 309

‘pretty’. RA VIC/LB 125/10, Queen Victoria to Leopold, 22 December 1840

‘old lady’. RA PP/VIC/1/80/28, Sir Arthur Bigge’s Memorandum, 1 November 1896

Malta. Beinecke Library, Osborn Col, Osborn Files, Folder 81, Queen Adelaide to Charles Blomfield, 22 November 1824

‘look’. Wyndham, Lady Lyttelton, 279

‘thin’. Hibbert, Queen Victoria Letters, 95

‘happening’. Longford, Victoria RI, 171

‘trades people’. RA VIC/Add A 8/324, Mary to Gussy, 11 February [1844]

‘thunderbolt’. RA VIC/Y 19/94, Mary to Queen Louise, 8 December 1844

luncheon. RA VIC/QVJ, 5 November 1843

‘seaside’. RA VIC/T 1/9, Mary to Bertie, 10 May [1846]

‘good’. RA VIC/QVJ, 29 January 1846

‘complaining’. RA VIC/QVJ, 24 July 1846

‘live on’. RA VIC/QVJ, 7 January 1848

‘feeble’. RA VIC/QVJ, 14 February 1848

‘horror’. RA VIC/Y 93/32, Queen Victoria to Leopold, 16 May 1848

‘case’. RA VIC/Y 74/54, Leopold to Queen Victoria, 19 May 1848

‘expired’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 May 1848

‘placid’. Ibid

‘world’. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Memoirs, 6, 69

‘amiable’, ‘done’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 May 1848

‘right’. RA VIC/QVJ, 29 May 1848

‘Green’, ‘possible’. Ibid

‘ones’. RA VIC/QVJ, 6 June 1848

‘number 8028’. Curl, Kensal Green, 122–3

‘me there’. RA VIC/QVJ, 4 May 1857

live with him. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, 241–2

attempts. RA PP/VIC/1/80/20-9, Miss Georgiana Garth’s Claims, 1875

CHAPTER 21: MARY – LAST OF THE LINE

‘sea’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 July 1848

‘sensible’. RA VIC/QVJ, 29 July 1848

‘distressed her’. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 July 1849

‘gasp’. RA VIC/QVJ, 8 July 1850

‘deeds’. RA VIC/Add A 8/927, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 9 July 1850

well liked. RA VIC/QVJ, 8 July 1850

‘see her’. Ibid, 9 July 1850

‘bequeath’. RA VIC/QVJ, 16 July 1850

‘insulted’. RA VIC/QVJ, 12 November 1850

‘manners’. RA VIC/QVJ, 13 November 1850

‘drawing room’. RA VIC/Add A 8/330, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 6 August [1850]

‘nonsense’. RA VIC/Add A 8/331, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 14 September [1850]

‘over’. RA VIC/Add A 8/330, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 6 August [1850]

‘come’. RA GEO/Add 12/407, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 26 April 1851

‘year’. RA VIC/Add A 8/329, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 July [1850]

‘comfortably’. RA VIC/Z 480/116, Mary to Queen Victoria, 11 May 1851

‘bed’. RA VIC/Add A 8/332, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 23 May [1851]

‘everybody’. RA VIC/Add A 7/208, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 22 August [?1854]

‘as the Exhibition’. RA VIC/Add A 8/340, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 10 September [1851]

‘in the Exhibition’. RA VIC/Add A 8/338, Mary to Gussy, ?15 June 1851

‘have!’. Burghclere, Great Man’s Friendship, 143

‘family’. RA VIC/QVJ, 12 November 1851

‘shudder’. RA VIC/QVJ, 20 November 1851

‘kept up’. RA VIC/Z 480/117, Mary to Queen Victoria, 21 November 1851

‘princes’. RA VIC/Z 480/119, Queen Victoria to Mary, 29 November 1851

‘days’. RA VIC/Add A 8/349, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 11 January [1852]

‘general’. RA VIC/Add A 8/353, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 8 May 1852

‘Cheveley’. RA VIC/Add A 8/335, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 5 June 1851

‘old lady’. RA VIC/Add C 2/1, Mary to Sarah, Lady Abinger, 4 May [1850s]

‘wonders’. Argyll, Passages from the Past, 1, 200

‘us all’. Ibid

‘chloroform’. Longford, Victoria RI, 234

‘child’. St Aubyn, Royal George, 91

troops. RA VIC/Add A 8/199-200, George to Mary and to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 October 1854

‘moment’. RA VIC/Add A 8/357, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 November [1854]

out to him. RA VIC/Add A 8/358, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 11 December 1854

‘shaken’. RA VIC/Z 480/133, Mary to Queen Victoria, 1 January 1855

‘there’. RA VIC/Add A 8/365, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 23 March 1855

victims. Roberts, Royal Artists, 71

dress. RPC, RCIN 54306, Queen Victoria, with Edward, Prince of Wales, Princess Alice and Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, by Antoine Claudet

shawl. RPC, RPC.01/0170/18b, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, by Augustus Liddell

‘place’. RA VIC/Z 61/19, Mary to Queen Victoria, 3 October [1855]

‘yesterday’. Ibid

‘disagreeable’. RA VIC/Add U 142/26, Mary to Frances Paget, 23 February [no year]

‘one’. RA VIC/Z 480/137, Mary to Queen Victoria, 30 March 1856

‘skin’. RA VIC/QVJ, 4 May 1857

‘arranged’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 August 1856

‘steadily’. RA VIC/Z 480/144, Mary to Queen Victoria, 7 September 1856

‘by and by’. RA VIC/T 1/10, Mary to Bertie, 11 November [?1850]

‘stairs’. RA VIC/Z 480/144, Mary to Queen Victoria, 7 September 1856

‘bed’. Ibid

‘for her’. RA VIC/Z 480/148, Mary to Queen Victoria, 18 March 1857, marked by latter ‘the last letter to me. She was taken ill on the night after 15 April and died April 30, 1857’

‘smart’. RA VIC/Add U 142/28, Mary to Frances Paget, nd

‘convenience’. RA PP/VIC/Add 751, Augustus Liddell to Sir Thomas Biddulph, 15 April 1857

‘April the 15th, GH’ RA VIC/M 54/22, Mary to Prince Albert, 15 April 1857

‘night’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/222, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 16 April 1857

‘work’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/222-3, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 16 April 1857

‘brain’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/224, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 18 April 1857

‘come’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/233, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 27 April 1857

‘face’, ‘sadly’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/237-8, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 28-30 April 1857

‘family’. RA VIC/QVJ, 30 April 1857