King George IV

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Mary O'Brien seems to have a good claim, since her The Political Monitor; or Regent 's Friend. Being a collection of poems published in England during the agitation of the regency: consisting of curious, interesting...

Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...

AG was offered an annual pension of £100 from George IV , in recognition of her literary efforts.

George IV is supposed to have called this the best bred and most amusing novel published in his remembrance. The Edinburgh Review judged it a respectable specimen of the genre of fashionable novel, and...

Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales and his mistress Lady Jersey downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox , apostrophised as one of the great and...

She quotes Byron on the title-page. As the Edinburgh Review noticed, Cecil's launching as a coxcomb takes place in 1809, the year that Byron began writing Childe Harold, and his final moral awakening...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was instrumental in saving Fox 's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales .

The Leveson-Gower family moved in exclusive social circles, and Fullerton recalled in her unfinished memoir that she regularly attended the Children's Ball at Carlton House (residence of the Prince Regent), and on one occasion, while...

EF took the side of Queen Caroline in the persecutions of her trial. She was actually detected shedding tears as the procession passed by during the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in summer...

Eliza and John Fenwick were close friends of Maria Reveley , her first husband the architect Willey Reveley , and their son the architect and engineer Henry Willey Reveley . (Their son was a playmate...

GE bore a daughter, Georgina or Georgiana , whose paternity was variously ascribed to several of her lovers (including the Prince of Wales , with whom she had broken up some months before the birth)...

In her earliest years in Paris she was the mistress first of the comte d'Artois (who much later reigned as Charles X ) and then of the duc de Chartres (later duc d'Orléans , later...

She needed to visit London to press for payment of the annuity promised her by the Prince of Wales : three hundred and fifty pounds a year, paid quarterly, on the condition of her living...

She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince , according to the account in notes to her published journal. Her closest friends at this time, say her biographers, were Lady Worsley (whose chequered career...