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Read Ebook: A forgotten Prince of Wales by Curties Henry
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 1653 lines and 99429 words, and 34 pagesPAGE Which Seizes upon the Prince as he comes into the World 1 The Falling in of a Great Legacy 12 The Prince at the Age of Nine 18 In which England gets a new King and Queen 25 A Double Event which did not come off 41 The Prince and the London of 1728 50 Peter Wentworth's Letters on the Prince's Life 60 The Prince's Embarrassments 73 The Duchess of Marlborough Throws for a Big Stake 83 The Beautiful Vanilla 92 The Prince Asserts Himself 104 A Child Bride 121 The Nuptials 141 Lady Archibald 147 A Rope Ladder and Some Storms 153 Parliament and the Prince's Income 178 A New Favourite and a Settlement 198 A Most Extraordinary Event 203 Which Contains a Great Deal of Fussing and Fuming and a little Poetry 221 The Prince is Cast Forth with His Family 247 The Death of the Queen 261 The Year of Mourning 282 A Husband and a Lover 294 The Reconciliation 306 The Battle of Dettingen 312 Bonnie Prince Charlie 321 Summer Days 344 Finis 354 The Final Scene 362 The Residuum 378 FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES, AND HIS SISTERS FRONTISPIECE LEINE PALACE, HANOVER Facing page 10 MARY BELLENDEN 28 LORD HERVEY 96 MARY LEPEL 108 PRINCESS AUGUSTA 136 MARY BELLENDEN, DUCHESS OF ARGYLL 146 THE PALACE OF HERRENHAUSEN, HANOVER 156 SIR ROBERT WALPOLE 192 SARAH, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH 240 QUEEN CAROLINE, AND THE YOUNG DUKE OF CUMBERLAND 262 PRINCE GEORGE AND PRINCE EDWARD 346 BUBB DODDINGTON 368 A FORGOTTEN PRINCE OF WALES. WHICH SEIZES UPON THE PRINCE AS HE COMES INTO THE WORLD. The beautiful young mother then, Caroline, a Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach, commonly called "Caroline of Ansbach," married but a year to her George Augustus--only the Electoral Prince at that time--lay happy in her bed in the palace, with her baby beside her, whilst the cold river ran without and the winter winds blew among the dear orange trees in the gardens she was so fond of two miles away at Herrenhausen, and very few people in Hanover and still fewer in England knew that a possible future Prince of Wales had been born into the world, for perhaps after all, very few people very much cared. Anne of England was still on the throne. So quiet had this matter been kept and so great a surprise was the event that Howe, the English Envoy, wrote home in the following strain:-- "This Court having for some time past almost despaired of the Princess Electoral being brought to bed, and most people apprehensive that her bigness, which has continued for so long, was rather an effect of a distemper than that she was with child, her Highness was taken ill last Friday at dinner, and last night, about seven o'clock, the Countess d'Eke, her lady of the bedchamber, sent me word that the Princess was delivered of a son." On the 25th February Howe writes again complaining bitterly like a wicked fairy in a children's tale, that he has not been invited to the christening which had taken place a few days after the birth in the young mother's bedroom, when the child had received the names of Frederick Louis. Furthermore, he had not been allowed to see the baby--and presumably to kiss it--until ten days later! This visit, however, appears to have mollified him, for he bursts forth into description: "I found the women," he says, "all admiring the largeness and strength of the child." One can see them doing it, and the dry old Envoy--it is presumed he was a bachelor as he makes no mention of his wife--looking on, and as much at sea with regard to the "points" of a fine baby as a midwife would be at a horse show. Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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