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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.
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