Memoirs Of Her Most Excellent Majesty Sophia Chartolte Queen Of Great Britain From Authentic Documents Embellished With Portraits

Author : John Watkins
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230456263
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Her Most Excellent Majesty Sophia-Charlotte; Queen of Great Britain, from Authentic Documents written by John Watkins and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ... princess augusta married. 179 Princess Augusta to the hereditary Prince of Brunswick, which event took place in the great council chamber at St. James's Palace, on the sixteenth of January; after which the new married couple repaired to Leicester House, where they supped with their majesties, the Princess Dowager of Wales, and the other branches of the royal family. On this occasion, the King presented his sitter with a diamond necklace, worth thirty thousand pounds; the Queen gave a gold watch of exquisite workmanship, set with jewels; and the Princess Dowager with a diamond stomacher of immense value. This marriage gave an uncommon brilliancy to the court on the birth-day, the concourse of coaches being so great, that many of the nobility were obliged to get out in St. James's Square, and proceed to the palace in chairs. The ball in the evening was no less numerous and splendid; and what gave peculiar interest to the scene, was the opening of it, by the Prince and Princess of Brunswick.-Two nights afterwards they accompanied their majesties to Covent Garden theatre, to see the new comedy of "No one's enemy but his own;' and so great was the crowd, that the playhouse passages and the piazzas exhibited nothing but one connected living mass; and even the streets were so thronged as to render it difficult for the carriages to get along without accident. So great was the ijjo leaves the kingdom. curiosity of some ladies to see-the hereditary prince, that several offered five guineas for a seat in the boxes and were refused. But the pressure at the Opera House on the following Saturday exceeded this to a degree beyond all description. The carriages could not come near the door, on which account many of the nobility were under the necessity...