King George IV

MH arrived in Hanover from Osnabruck to join the suite of Princess Caroline of Brunswick, who was about to travel to England for her ill-fated marriage to the Prince of Wales (later George IV ).

MH occupied a court position during the anxious time when George III was first attacked by apparent insanity. She seems to have been the one responsible for recommending Dr Francis Willis as his physician.

The banks of the Thames were lined with cheering spectators. At Greenwich the royal party got into coaches (after a small crisis about another lady-in-waiting who claimed that facing backwards in the coach would make...

The printed diary begins with the crucial days during which the disturbed king gave signs of convalescence, just in time for the withdrawal of the Regency Bill which would have put the government into the...

Her last letters in the collection relate her expedition to escort Princess Caroline to England to marry the Prince of Wales .

The attractive quarto volume, printed in Liverpool for T. Cadell and W. Davies in London, was dedicated with permission to the Prince of Wales . It had 977 other subscribers, including Captain Alfred Hemans

This was a topical subject given the Napoleonic wars which had involved Britain (and FH 's brothers and fiancé) in fighting in Spain and Portugal. The twenty-eight-page poem, dedicated with permission to the Prince of Wales

BH published a pamphlet on the quarrel between George IV and Queen Caroline, entitled An Englishwoman's Letter to Mrs. Hannah More.

LH and his brother John were summoned before the High Court on charges of seditious libel for a withering attack on the Prince Regent in The Examiner, in response to an adulatory article in...

It was requested for performance by the king and attended by the Prince of Wales . The Critical Review suggested that even after ten years of writing for the stage EI was not yet...

At the request of the Prince Regent (later George IV ), and the urgings of the princesses Mary , Elizabeth , and Sophia , ECK agreed to serve as one of the lady companions to...

ECK 's position as a lady companion to Princess Charlotte was complicated by the intention of the princess's father, the Regent , to keep his daughter as long as possible a child. While subject...

The Regent made no complaint about ECK at her dismissal, but it would appear that the dismissal was related to Princess Charlotte's decision that she would not marry a prince who seemed likely to subordinate...

Probably inspired by the example of her aunt the Duchess of Devonshire , she wrote letters, canvassed in taverns, and exchanged kisses for votes. Being even more notorious already than her aunt, she had less...

ML wrote A Lyric Ode, on the Birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (later George IV ), which she published in 1763.