Title: Diary Illustration of the Times of George the Fourth Interspersed With Original Letters From the Late Queen Caroline and From Various Other Distinguished Persons General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: Henry Colburn Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: F – – d, Mr. L lie, Mr. Lewis, Mr. North, and Mr. Macdonald came to pay their respects in her box. Mr. Lewis, the author of
The Monk, was not, however, a very suitable attendant upon royalty. Mr. Ward was clever and pleasing; but her Royal Highness was not, upon the whole, . much flattered by her visiters, neither had she much cause to be so. Sunday. – There was, as is customary on this day, a large party at Kensington – but it was not so pleasant a dinner as usual, for the Duchess of R d and her daughter, with Lady S y and her daughter also, rendered it rather formal – and it troubled the Princess to make herself agreeable to them. After dinner, there was an addition of Mrs. Po| lef, Mrs. Lock:):, Lady Dunmore,