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  44. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 202.

  45. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of the Princess Charlotte, p. 151.

  46. Glenbervie Diary, 11 October 1811, National Library of Scotland, Acc 10505.

  47. Ibid.

  48. Charles Greville, The Greville Diaries, quoted in Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 204.

  49. Charles Greville, quoted in Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 19.

  50. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 464.

  51. Fraser, Princesses, p. 192.

  52. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 199.

  53. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, pp. 94–95.

  54. Glenbervie Diary, 11 October 1811.

  55. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, no date (between July 1800 and October 1801), Harcourt Ms.

  56. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 364.

  57. Iremonger, Love and the Princesses, p. 201.

  58. Princess Sophia to Lady Harcourt, 30 December 1800, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  59. Fraser, Princesses, p. 216.

  60. Ibid.

  61. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 85.

  62. Ibid., p. 85.

  63. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, pp. 75–76.

  64. Ibid., p. 95.

  65. Ibid., I, p. 363.

  66. Glenbervie Diary, 11 October 1811.

  67. Gillett (ed.), Elizabeth Ham, p. 48.

  68. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, III, p. 154.

  69. Harcourt, ‘Anecdotes’, Harcourt Papers, V, p. 414.

  70. D’Arblay, Diary and Letters, IV, p. 46.

  71. Princess Sophia to Lady Harcourt, 24 August 1794, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  72. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 484.

  73. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 16.

  74. Thompson, English Working Class, p. 155.

  75. Black, George III, p. 366.

  76. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 27.

  77. Ibid., pp. 14, 10.

  78. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, pp. 173, 185.

  79. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 14.

  80. Ibid., p. 14.

  81. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 217.

  82. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 18.

  83. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 187.

  84. Ibid., p. 352.

  85. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 32.

  86. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 208.

  87. Ibid., p. 209.

  88. Ibid.

  89. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 211.

  90. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 210.

  91. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 126.

  92. Ibid., p.127.

  93. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 210.

  94. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, pp. 224–25.

  95. Ibid., p. 225.

  96. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 43.

  97. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 128.

  98. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 43.

  99. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 236.

  100. Ibid., p. 231.

  101. Ibid., p. 322.

  102. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 286.

  103. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, IV, pp. 493–95.

  104. Ibid., I, p. 496.

  105. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 3 March 1804, Harcourt Ms.

  106. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 17.

  107. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 319.

  108. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 70.

  109. Ibid., p. 113.

  110. Ibid., p. 117.

  111. Ibid., p. 17.

  112. Ibid., p. 6.

  113. Ibid., p. 90.

  114. Ibid., pp. 6–7.

  115. Ibid., p. 90.

  116. Ibid., p. 114.

  117. Ibid., p. 126n.

  118. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, p. 55.

  119. Ibid.

  120. Ibid., I, p. 378.

  121. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 216.

  122. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 29.

  123. Fraser, Princesses, p. 206.

  124. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 90.

  125. Ibid., p. 114.

  126. Ibid.

  127. Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence, IV, p. 337.

  128. Fraser, Princesses, p. 210.

  129. Ibid., p. 208.

  130. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, pp. 160–61.

  131. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 401.

  132. Auckland, Journal and Correspondence, IV, pp. 212, 213.

  133. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 6 November 1804, Harcourt Ms.

  134. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 8 March 1805, Harcourt Ms.

  135. Fraser, Princesses, p. 209.

  136. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 223.

  137. Ibid.

  138. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  139. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 6 December 1808, Harcourt Ms.

  140. Queen Charlotte to Lord Harcourt, 5 December 1807, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  141. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 23 July 1802, Harcourt Ms.

  142. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 308 (11 September 1808).

  143. Ibid., p. 309.

  144. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 20 June 1808, Harcourt Ms.

  145. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 18 June 1808, Harcourt Ms.

  146. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 17 September 1807, Harcourt Ms.

  147. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 20 June 1808, Harcourt Ms.

  148. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 265.

  149. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 23 July 1802, Harcourt Ms.

  150. John Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 97.

  151. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, V, p. 243.

  152. Ibid., VI, p. 323.

  153. Ibid., p. 316 (25 September 1808).

  154. Ibid.

  155. Ibid., p. 323.

  156. Ibid.

  157. Ibid.

  158. Ibid.

  159. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, p. 397.

  160. Ibid.

  161. Ibid.

  162. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 10 December 1808, Harcourt Ms.

  163. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 45.

  164. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, pp. 53–54.

  165. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, pp. 23–24.

  166. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, pp. 61–62.

  167. Ibid., pp. 66–67.

  168. Ibid., p. 173.

  169. Ibid.

  170. Ibid., p. 73.

  171. Fraser, Princesses, p. 233.

  172. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, p. 94.

  173. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 142.

  174. Fraser, Princesses, p. 233.

  175. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, II, p. 94.

  176. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 173.

  177. Ibid., p. 181.

  178. Ibid., pp. 124–25.

  179. Ibid., pp. 136–37.

  180. Ibid., p. 138.

  181. Ibid., pp. 146–47.

  182. Ibid., pp. 148–49.

  183. Ibid., pp. 177–78.

  184. Ibid., p. 174.

  185. Ibid., p. 175.

  186. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 517.

  187. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 200.

  188. Ibid., p. 193.

  189. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 412.

  190. Aspinall (ed.), George III, V, p. 320.

  191. Aspinall (ed.),
Prince of Wales, VI, p. 422.

  192. Aspinall (ed.), George III, V, p. 354.

  193. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 441.

  194. Ibid.

  195. Ibid., p. 458.

  196. Ibid., p. 452.

  197. Aspinall (ed.), George III, V, p. 393.

  198. Ibid., p. 414.

  199. Bickley (ed.), Diaries of Lord Glenbervie, I, pp. 383–84.

  200. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 356–57.

  201. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VI, p. 502.

  202. Ibid., p. 516.

  203. Aspinall (ed.), George III, V, p. 592.

  204. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 48.

  205. Aspinall (ed.) George III, V, p. 607.

  206. Halford Papers, DG 24/822/4, Leicester Record Office.

  207. Ibid.

  208. Ibid.

  209. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 222.

  210. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 56.

  211. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 225.

  212. Ibid., p. 233.

  213. Ibid., pp. 228–29.

  214. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 242.

  215. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 227.

  216. Ibid., p. 260n.

  217. Ibid., p. 249.

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  1. Hibbert, George III, p. 391.

  2. Ibid., pp. 390–91.

  3. Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight (2 vols, London, 1861), I, pp. 174–75.

  4. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 67n.

  5. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 9 November 1810, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  6. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 144.

  7. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 67n.

  8. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 146.

  9. Princess Mary to Lady Harcourt, 2 December 1810, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  10. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, December 1810, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  11. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 154.

  12. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 219.

  13. Ibid., VIII, p. 386.

  14. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 155.

  15. Ibid., p. 157.

  16. Ibid., pp. 157–58.

  17. Ibid., p. 159.

  18. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 68.

  19. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 281.

  20. Ibid., p. 282.

  21. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, pp. 160–61.

  22. Ibid., p. 162.

  23. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 68n.

  24. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 252.

  25. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 16 November 1811, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  26. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VII, p. 223.

  27. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, December 1810, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  28. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 10 July 1812, Harcourt Ms.

  29. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 251.

  30. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 215.

  31. Hedley, Queen Charlotte, p. 251.

  32. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 215–16.

  33. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 10 July 1812, Harcourt Ms.

  34. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 296.

  35. Ibid., p. 299.

  36. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 217.

  37. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 252.

  38. Ibid., p. 349.

  39. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 12 February 1812, Harcourt Ms.

  40. Macalpine and Hunter, George III, p. 166.

  41. Stuart, Daughters of George III, pp. 99–100.

  42. Ibid., pp. 100–01.

  43. Ibid., p. 223.

  44. Ibid., p. 222.

  45. A. Aspinall (ed.), The Letters of King George IV: 1812 to 1830 (3 vols, Cambridge, 1938) I, p. 175.

  46. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 175.

  47. Ibid., p. 104.

  48. Ibid., p. 105.

  49. Ibid.

  50. Ernest Taylor (ed.), The Taylor Papers (London, 1913), p. 78.

  51. Ibid., p. 81.

  52. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 37.

  53. Princess Elizabeth to William, 3rd Lord Harcourt, 26 April 1812, Harcourt Ms.

  54. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 110.

  55. Ibid., p. 107.

  56. Ibid., pp. 110–11.

  57. Ibid., p. 109.

  58. Ibid., p. 115.

  59. Entry for Sir Brent Spencer, Dictionary of National Biography.

  60. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 17 September 1807, Harcourt Ms.

  61. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 28 September 1807, Harcourt Ms.

  62. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 109.

  63. Ibid., p. 111.

  64. Ibid.

  65. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 42.

  66. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, p. 88.

  67. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 88.

  68. Wardoper, Wicked Ernest, p. 88.

  69. Ibid., p. 87.

  70. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 289.

  71. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 152.

  72. Wardoper, Wicked Ernest, pp. 87–89.

  73. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, I, p. 467.

  74. Hibbert, George IV: Prince of Wales, p. 219.

  75. George Thomas Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, Fifty Years of My Life (New York, 1876), p. 36.

  76. Rose Weigall, A Brief Memoir of the Princess Charlotte of Wales (London, 1874), p. 34.

  77. Ibid., p. 33.

  78. Keppel, Fifty Years, p. 71.

  79. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 38.

  80. Keppel, Fifty Years, p. 53.

  81. Ibid., p. 57.

  82. Ibid., p. 47.

  83. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 38.

  84. Sichel (ed.), Glenbervie Journals, pp. 119–20 (21 October 1811).

  85. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. xi.

  86. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 101.

  87. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 102.

  88. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 186.

  89. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. xv.

  90. Aspinall (ed.), Prince of Wales, VIII, p. 30.

  91. Knight, Autobiography, I, p. 212.

  92. Ibid., p. 213.

  93. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 21.

  94. Ibid., pp. xvi, 85.

  95. Ibid., p. 6.

  96. Ibid., p. 7.

  97. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 24 October 1811, Harcourt Ms.

  98. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 23.

  99. Ibid., p. 33.

  100. Ibid., p. 28.

  101. Knight, Autobiography, I, p. 240.

  102. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 126.

  103. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 108.

  104. Ibid., p. 231.

  105. Ibid., p. 26.

  106. Ibid., pp. 74–75.

  107. Ibid., p. 82.

  108. Ibid., p. 69.

  109. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, I, p. 289.

  110. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 87.

  111. Ibid., p. 89.

  112. Ibid., p. 92.

  113. Ibid., p. 94.

  114. Ibid., p. 95.

  115. Ibid., pp. 95, 96.

  116. Ibid., p. 96.

  117. Ibid., pp. 117–18.

  118. Ibid., p. xviii; Fraser, Unruly Queen, p. 247.

  119. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, pp. 127–28.

  120. Ibid., pp. 137–38.

  121. Ibid., p. 140.

  122. Ibid., p. 145.

  123. Ibid., pp. 147, 148.

  124. Ibid., p. 148.
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  125. Ibid., pp. 180–81.

  126. Ibid., p. 155.

  127. Ibid., p. 160.

  128. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, I, p. 516.

  129. Ibid., II, p. 30.

  130. Ibid., p. 31.

  131. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, pp. 191–92.

  132. Ibid., p. 165.

  133. Ibid., p. 180.

  134. Ibid., p. 190.

  135. Ibid., p. 224.

  136. Ibid., p. 225.

  137. Ibid., p. 242.

  138. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 243.

  139. Alison Plowden, Caroline and Charlotte (London, 2005), p. 253.

  140. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 231.

  141. Ibid., pp. 224–25.

  142. Bury, Lady in Waiting, I, p. 203.

  143. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, pp. 224–25.

  144. Bury, Lady in Waiting, II, p. 81.

  145. Fraser, Princesses, p. 294.

  146. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 78.

  147. Princess Elizabeth to Lord Harcourt, 20 June 1808, Harcourt Ms.

  148. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 233.

  149. Ibid., p. 229.

  150. Princess Mary to Lady Harcourt, no date, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  151. Ibid.

  152. Childe-Pemberton, Romance of Princess Amelia, p. 296.

  153. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, pp. 245, 243.

  154. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 249.

  155. Princess Royal to Lady Harcourt, 1 April 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  156. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, II, p. 171.

  157. Ibid., p. 187.

  158. Ibid., I, p. 423.

  159. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 11 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  160. Plowden, Caroline and Charlotte, p. 257.

  161. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of George IV, II, p. 211.

  162. Plowden, Caroline and Charlotte, p. 263.

  163. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 8 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  164. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 11 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  165. Queen Charlotte to Lady Harcourt, 11 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  166. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 8 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  167. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 13 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  168. Princess Augusta to Lady Harcourt, 19 November 1817, Harcourt Papers, VI.

  169. Plowden, Caroline and Charlotte, p. 264.

  170. Princess Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt, 22 January 1812, Harcourt Ms.

  171. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 175.

  172. Ibid., p. 176.

  173. Ibid., pp. 178–79.

  174. Ibid., p. 181.

  175. Stuart, Daughters of George III, p. 180.

  176. Ibid., p. 181.

  177. Aspinall (ed.), Letters of Princess Charlotte, p. 212.

 

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