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Author : Charlotte Campbell Bury
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ISBN 13 : 9781332606900
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, 1908, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Charlotte Campbell Bury and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, 1908, Vol. 1 Caroline, Princess of Wales, with whom she had sympa thised for some years. The situation was not a pleasant one, as the Princess was separated from her husband, the powerful and vindictive Prince of Wales, and estranged by Queen Charlotte's dislike to her, from the Court. To add more difficulties, she, by her own imprudence, follies and indiscreet conduct, was continually making her position and that of her ladies and gentlemen, which was bad at all times, worse than it might have been. Deserted by her husband soon after the birth, in 1796, of their only child, the Princess Charlotte, the Princess of Wales had been involved in serious charges of adultery brought against her by two treacherous friends, Sir John and Lady Douglas, whom she, though knowing little of their antecedents, had foolishly made much of during her retirement at Blackheath. Though cleared of the charges in 1806 by the Delicate Investigation of a Commission of Peers appointed by her uncle the King always her f riend - she was reproved for levity of manners, and though allowed to appear at Court, she was coldly received by the old een and debarred from seeing much of her daughter. He scandal which attached to those proceedings naturally was re ected on her circle, and as she still continued to keep with her a child, William Austin, said, by rumour, to be her own, but whom the Delicate Investigation held to be the child of a poor woman at Deptford whom the Princess had taken under her protection there were still many people who believed the former scandals, which therefore came to the surface from time to time, and these timid worthies either avoided the Princess's Court or at most gave it only quasi-recogni tion, particularly after her persecuting husband became Prince Regent in 1811. As she was always pressed for money, in addition to her Court duties, Lady Charlotte attempted to make an income by literature. In 1812 she published a novel (the precursor of many others) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."