King George IV

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...

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

The dedication imagines writers aspiring to the honour of influencing the baby Charlotte: I taught the maid! cries each exulting Muse. It praises the royal family indiscriminately: the present king and queen , and...

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

In the play Lord Crotchet, who is a scholar of ancient Rome and thinks it superior to the modern world, plans a day of saturnalia, when servants change places with their masters. This is presented...

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...

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...

CMC voices some anti-semitism on the topic of the Naturalization Bill (the bill of 5 April 1753 naturalizing resident aliens, which was popularly called the Jew Bill): she believed that the Jews bribed our...

Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...

Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte (The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III and the Duke of Kent (The Eldest King...

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...

Despite her obvious topical political agenda, CO does not confuse her picture of Napoleon and his operations by any likeness to Hitler. She opens her history, like the biographer she was, with the guillotining of...

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 ).

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...

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...