57. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.
58. Campbell Orr, ‘Scientific Queen’, p. 236.
59. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 6 July 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
60. Campbell Orr, ‘Scientific Queen’, pp. 253, 64n.
61. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 9 July 1782, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
62. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.
63. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 6 September 1779, Hamilton Ms.
64. Home (ed.), Coke, II, p. 247.
65. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 53.
66. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 97.
67. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 91.
68. Home (ed.), Coke, III, p. 258.
69. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 56.
70. Home (ed.), Coke, III, p. 291.
71. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 56.
72. Home (ed.), Coke, IV, p. 418.
73. Princess Augusta to Mrs Hamilton, 28 November 1777, Hamilton Ms.
74. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 264.
75. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 50.
76. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 9 July 1782, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
77. Watkins, Memoirs of Sophia Charlotte, p. 263.
78. Ibid., p. 319.
79. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, II, p. 55.
80. Ibid., p. 45.
81. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 110.
82. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 50.
83. Ibid., p. 55.
84. Ibid., p. 60.
85. Ibid., p. 52.
86. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 20 August 1780, Hamilton Ms.
87. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 78.
88. Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth to Mary Hamilton, throughout 1777, Hamilton Ms.
89. Princess Augusta to Mary Hamilton, no date, Hamilton Ms.
90. Ibid.
91. Princess Augusta to Mary Hamilton, 14 August 1784, Hamilton Ms.
92. Princess Royal to Mary Hamilton, no date (1777), 13 January 1778, Hamilton Ms.
93. Princess Royal to Mary Hamilton, 3 January 1778, Hamilton Ms.
94. Princess Royal to Mary Hamilton 1 and 3 February 1778, Hamilton Ms.
95. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 11 April 1777, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
96. Fraser, Princesses, p. 50.
97. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 20 July 1777, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
98. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 77.
99. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 32.
100. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, no date (1780), Hamilton Ms.
101. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 24 November 1783, Hamilton Ms.
102. Shefrin, Constant Affectionate Care, p. 52.
103. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 20 June 1780, Hamilton Ms.
104. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 28 March 1780, Hamilton Ms.
105. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, no date, Hamilton Ms.
106. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 77.
107. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, 25 June 1781, Hamilton Ms.
108. Anson and Anson (eds), Mary Hamilton, p. 193.
109. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 13 June 1783, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
110. Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, no date (1780), Hamilton Ms.
Chapter 9 – Numberless Trials
1. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 33.
2. Ibid.
3. Black, George III, p. 115.
4. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV, p. 143.
5. Wraxall, Historical Memoirs, I, p. 37.
6. John Cannon, Lord North: The Noble Lord in the Blue Ribbon (London, 1970), pp. 7, 9.
7. John Fortescue, The Correspondence of King George III (6 vols, London, 1927), IV, p. 220.
8. Ibid., V, p. 62.
9. Hibbert, George III, p. 157.
10. Ibid., p. 145.
11. Ibid., p. 143.
12. Black, George III, p. 225.
13. Hibbert, George III, p. 158.
14. Cannon, Lord North, p. 25.
15. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, no date, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
16. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 1 June 1779, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
17. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xvii.
18. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 29 February 1780, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
19. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xvii.
20. Hibbert, George III, p. 162.
21. Black, George III, p. 247.
22. Ibid., p. 101.
23. Hibbert, George III, p. 233.
24. Steuart (ed.), Last Journals of Horace Walpole, II, p. 496.
25. Hibbert, George III, p. 233.
26. Steuart (ed.), Last Journals of Horace Walpole, II, p. 496.
27. Hibbert, George III, p. 234.
28. Black, George III, p. 114.
29. Hibbert, George III, p. 164.
30. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 104.
31. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 30 May 1782, Hamilton Ms.
32. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 3 July 1782, Hamilton Ms.
33. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 17 July 1782, Hamilton Ms.
34. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 22 August 1782, Hamilton Ms.
35. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 27 August 1782, Hamilton Ms.
36. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 22 August 1782, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
37. Miss Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, 24 August 1782, Hamilton Ms.
38. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 271.
39. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 23 April 1783, Hamilton Ms.
40. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 26 April 1783, Hamilton Ms.
41. E. Sorell to Mary Hamilton, 4 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
42. Lady Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, 4 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
43. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 270.
44. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 5 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
45. Miss Planta to Mary Hamilton, 5 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
46. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 108.
47. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 5 May 1783, Hamilton Ms.
48. Queen Charlotte to Lady Pembroke, 9 July 1785, Papers of the Earls of Pembroke, 2057/F4/47, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office.
49. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 108n.
50. Hibbert, George III, p. 99.
51. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 108n.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid., pp. 66–68.
54. Ibid., p. 72.
55. Ibid., p. 60.
56. Ibid., p. 73.
57. Ibid., p. 76.
58. Ibid., p. 79.
59. Ibid., p. 134.
60. Ibid., p. 86.
61. Christopher Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales (London, 1973), p. 32.
62. Ibid., pp. 34–35.
63. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 77.
64. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 138.
65. Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales, p. 39.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid., p. 40.
68. Hibbert, George III, p. 249.
69. Ibid.
70. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 73.
71. Ibid., p. 148.
72. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xxii.
73. Ibid., p. xviii.
74. Ibid., p. 107.
75. Ibid., p. xviii.
76. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 153.
77. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 120.
78. Ibid., p. 175.
79. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, pp. 220–21.
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80. Ibid., p. 330.
81. Steuart (ed.), Last Journals of Horace Walpole, II, p. 529.
Chapter 10 – Great Expectations
1. Campbell Orr, ‘Scientific Queen’, p. 255.
2. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 213.
3. Lady Harcourt, Harcourt Papers, VI. Note made by Lady Harcourt attached to the voluminous collected correspondence from Princess Elizabeth.
4. Princess Elizabeth to Lord Harcourt, 4 December 1796, Harcourt Papers, VI.
5. George III to Lord Harcourt, 30 March and 1 April 1796, Harcourt Papers, VI.
6. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 78.
7. Queen Charlotte to Lord Harcourt, 17 December 1786, Harcourt Papers, VI.
8. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 27 September 1795, Harcourt Papers, VI.
9. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 5 April 1789, Harcourt Papers, VI.
10. Queen Charlotte to Lord Harcourt, 9 June 1793, Harcourt Papers, VI.
11. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 15 September 1784, Harcourt Papers, VI.
12. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, September 1785, Harcourt Papers, VI.
13. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, September 1785, Harcourt Papers, VI.
14. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 19 September 1785, Harcourt Ms.
15. Mrs Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, 7 June 1781, Hamilton Ms.
16. Hester Davenport, Faithful Handmaid; Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III (London, 2000), p. 17.
17. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 10.
18. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, III, pp. 286–87.
19. Ibid., p. 308.
20. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 446.
21. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 66.
22. Ibid., p. 28.
23. Ibid., p. 42.
24. Ibid., p. 297.
25. Ibid., p. 63.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., p. 76.
28. Ibid., p. 87.
29. Ibid., pp. 196–97.
30. Ibid., p. 366.
31. Ibid., p. 90.
32. Ibid., p. 91.
33. Ibid., p. 186.
34. Ibid., p. 372.
35. Ibid., p. 205.
36. Ibid., p. 42.
37. Ibid., p. 196.
38. Ibid., p. 258.
39. Ibid., p. 49.
40. Ibid., p. 48.
41. Ibid., p. 248
42. Ibid., p. 90.
43. Ibid., p. 164.
44. Ibid., p. 299.
45. Ibid., p. 231.
46. Ibid., p. 212.
47. Ibid., p. 65.
48. Ibid., p. 98.
49. Ibid., p. 99.
50. Ibid., p. 92.
51. Ibid., p. 235.
52. Ibid., p. 227
53. Ibid., pp. 193–94.
54. Ibid., p. 277.
55. Ibid., p. 94.
56. Ibid., p. 91.
57. Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (2 vols, London, 1969), p. 36.
58. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 3 October 1792, Harcourt Papers, VI.
59. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, III, p. 317.
60. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 106.
61. Princess Elizabeth to Lord Harcourt, 12 November 1797, Harcourt Papers, VI.
62. Philip Yorke (ed.), Letters of Princess Elizabeth of England (London, 1898), p. 143.
63. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 5 July 1794, Harcourt Papers, VI.
64. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 49.
65. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 186.
66. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 73.
67. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 342.
68. Princess Augusta to Lord Harcourt, 5 November 1802, Harcourt Papes, VI.
69. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, pp. xi, xin.
70. E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London, 1963), pp. 173–74.
71. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, IV, pp. 60–61.
72. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xiv.
73. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 81.
74. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 274n.
75. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, IV, p. 38.
76. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 35.
77. Susan Buchan, Lady Louisa Stuart (London, 1932), p. 196.
78. Ibid.; Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. xiv.
79. Papendiek, Court and Private Life, I, p. 229.
80. Ibid., p. 229.
81. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 28.
82. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, I, p. 349n.
83. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, III, p. 386.
84. Fraser, Princesses, p. 99.
85. Ibid., pp. 96–97.
86. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 41.
87. Ibid., III, p. 242.
88. Davenport, Faithful Handmaid, p. 69.
89. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV, pp. 272, 272n.
90. John Brooke, King George III (London, 1972), p. 434.
91. Ibid., p. 439.
92. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. 94.
93. Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. Jarrett, IV, pp. 103–04.
94. Ibid., p. 176.
95. Steuart (ed.), Last Journals of Horace Walpole, II, p. 132.
96. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. xcvii.
97. Brooke, King George III, pp. 446–47.
98. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, II, p. 339n.
99. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 39.
100. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, III, p. 154.
101. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 1 July 1783, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
102. Fraser, Princesses, p. 79.
103. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, III, p. 160.
104. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 40.
105. Ibid., p. 54.
106. Ibid., p. 40.
107. Ibid., p. 38.
108. Charlotte, Queen of Würtemberg to Lady Harcourt, 14 March 1823, Harcourt Ms.
109. William S. Childe-Pemberton, The Romance of Princess Amelia (New York, 1911), p. 23.
110. Greig (ed.), Diaries of a Duchess, p. 63.
111. Home (ed.), Coke, I, p. 33.
112. Tillyard, Royal Affair, p. 269.
113. Hibbert, George III, p. 175.
114. Brooke, King George III, p. 430.
115. Ibid., p. 426.
116. Queen Charlotte to Prince Charles, 20 July 1776, Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin.
117. Flora Fraser, The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline (London, 1996), p. 15.
118. Delany, Autobiography and Correspondence, I, p. 188.
119. Harcourt, Court of King George, p. 55.
120. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 2 September 1798, Harcourt Ms.
121. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 20
Chapter 11 – An Intellectual Malady
1. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 593.
2. Ibid., III, p. 171.
3. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 378n.
4. Ibid.
5. Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter, George III and the Mad-Business (London, 1969), p. 6.
6. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, II, p. 557.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid, p. 559.
9. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 7.
10. Hibbert, George III, p. 256.
11. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 11.
12. William Auckland, Journal and Correspondence (2 vols, London, 1861), II, p. 226.
13. Hibbert, George III, p. 255.
14. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 9.
15. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, pp. 25–26.
16. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 390.<
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17. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 10.
18. Ibid., p. 11.
19. Sir Gilbert Elliot, Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto, 1751 to 1806 (3 vols, London, 1874), I, p. 228.
20. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, pp. 14–15.
21. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 49.
22. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 396.
23. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 12.
24. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, pp. 16–17.
25. Aspinall (ed.), George III, I, p. 397.
26. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 14.
27. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 17.
28. F. McKno Bladon (ed.), The Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville (London, 1930), p. 79.
29. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 50.
30. Ibid.
31. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 14.
32. Ibid., p. 15.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., p. 16.
35. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 19.
36. Ibid., p. 20.
37. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 17.
38. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 21.
39. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 18.
40. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 142.
41. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, pp. 52–53.
42. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 20.
43. Ibid., p. 21
44. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 54.
45. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 21.
46. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 56.
47. Ibid., pp. 57–58.
48. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 22.
49. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 59.
50. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, pp. 23–24.
51. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, pp. 60–61.
52. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 25.
53. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 62.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid., p. 63.
56. Ibid., p. 65.
57. Bland Burges letters, ff. 80, 87, quoted in Timothy J. Peters and Allan Beveridge, ‘The Madness of King George III: A Psychiatric Reassessment’, History of Psychiatry 21 (1)(2010), p. 24.
58. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 25.
59. Ibid., p. 26.
60. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 66.
61. Ibid.
62. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 28.
63. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, III, p. 67.
64. Elliot, Life and Letters, I, p. 233.
65. Harcourt, ‘Memoirs of the Years 1788 and 1789’, p. 29.
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