This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...Princess Charlotte yielded, but with a characteristic flash of the Brunswick spirit insisted on one of the Royal carriages being sent for her; and before departing she made Brougham draw up a minute containing her declaration that she was resolved not to marry the Prince of Orange, and that if ever there should be an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...Princess Charlotte yielded, but with a characteristic flash of the Brunswick spirit insisted on one of the Royal carriages being sent for her; and before departing she made Brougham draw up a minute containing her declaration that she was resolved not to marry the Prince of Orange, and that if ever there should be an announcement of such a match it must be understood to be without her consent and against her will. This stroke was effectual; no more was heard of the alliance, and it was matter of general gossip at the clubs that, in Creeveyan phraseology, 'young Prinny had thrown over the Frog.' Princess Charlotte went back to her captivity in Carlton House to endure two years more of petty coercion and surveillance. Then followed a few months of happiness so great as to cover with oblivion the years of misery in which her girlhood had been spent, and then--Hark! forth from the abyss a voice proceeds, A long, low, distant murmur of dread sound, Such as arises when a nation bleeds With some deep and immedicable wound. In the sad midnight, while thy heart still bled, The mother of a moment, o'er thy boy, Death hushed that pang for ever. 1 Life of Brougham, ii. 229, 235. Brougham's account of the scene in Connaught Place is flatly contradicted by Miss Cornelia Knight, the Princess's governess (see the Quarterly Review, cxii. 66 el seq.), but it seems to me to be difficult to dispute the main facts, unless the Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham, written by himself, is to be treated as waste paper. Unhappily, however, as we shall see in later pages, a good deal of so-called ' history' which rests on Brougham's uncorroborated evidence has proved to be utterly apocryphal (vide infra, 304, and Edinburgh Review, cxxv. 529 and 546). Shortly after the July night in ...
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