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Princesses

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by Flora Fraser


  ‘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 Decem
ber [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

 

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