The Murdered Queen! Or, Caroline of Brunswick: A Diary of the Court of George IVEmans, 1838 - 672 pages |
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Page 328 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Page 38 - I retain every sentiment of gratitude for the situation in which I find myself, as Princess of Wales, enabled, by your means, to indulge in the free exercise of a virtue dear to my heart, — I mean, charity. " It .will be my duty likewise to act upon another motive, that of giving an example of patience and resignation under every trial.
Page 195 - This expectation was not disappointed. We are happy to declare to Your Majesty our perfect conviction that there is no foundation whatever for believing that the child now with the Princess is the child of Her Royal Highness, or that she was delivered of any child in the year 1802 ; nor has any thing appaared to us which would warrant the belief that she was pregnant in that year, or at any other period within the compass of our inquiries.
Page 422 - ... and swayed it by turns. The habits of friendship, the ties of blood, the dictates of conscience, the rules of honesty, were alike forgotten ; and the fury of the tyrant, with the resources of a cunning which mental alienation is supposed to whet, were ready to circumvent or to destroy all who interposed an obstacle to the fierceness of unbridled desire.
Page 184 - She never told Cole that Mary Wilson, when she supposed the Princess to be in the library, had gone into the Princess's bed-room, and had found a man there at breakfast with the Princess ; or that there was a great to-do about it, and that Mary Wilson was sworn to secrecy, and threatened to be turned away, if she divulged what she had seen.
Page 621 - It will go forth your judgment, if sentence shall go against the queen. But it will be the only judgment you ever pronounced, which, instead of reaching its object, will return and bound back upon those who give it.
Page 283 - ... your opinion, whether, under all the circumstances of the case, it be fit and proper that the intercourse between the Princess of Wales and her daughter, the Princess Charlotte, should continue to be subject to regulations and restrictions.
Page 196 - Princess's house in the month of November following. Neither should we be more warranted in expressing any doubt respecting the alleged pregnancy of the Princess as stated in the original declarations, — a fact so fully contradicted, and by so many witnesses, to whom, if true, it must in various ways, have been known, that we cannot think it entitled to the smallest credit.
Page 196 - Brownlow-street hospital, on the llth day of July, 1802, of the body of Sophia Austin, and was first brought to the Princess's house in the month of November following.
Page 306 - The princess is compelled, therefore, to throw herself upon the house, and upon the justice of parliament, and to require that the fullest investigation may be instituted into the whole of her conduct during her residence in this country.