A FORGOTTEN
PRINCE OF WALES.
[Illustration]
[Illustration:
_National Portrait Gallery._ _Emery Walker._
FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES, AND HIS SISTERS AT KEW.]
A FORGOTTEN
PRINCE OF WALES
BY
CAPTAIN HENRY CURTIES
Author of “When England Slept,”
etc., etc.
LONDON
EVERETT & CO., LTD.
42 ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.
Dedicated by permission
to
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.G.
CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
Which Seizes upon the Prince as he comes into the World 1
CHAPTER II.
The Falling in of a Great Legacy 12
CHAPTER III.
The Prince at the Age of Nine 18
CHAPTER IV.
In which England gets a new King and Queen 25
CHAPTER V.
A Double Event which did not come off 41
CHAPTER VI.
The Prince and the London of 1728 50
CHAPTER VII.
Peter Wentworth’s Letters on the Prince’s Life 60
CHAPTER VIII.
The Prince’s Embarrassments 73
CHAPTER IX.
The Duchess of Marlborough Throws for a Big Stake 83
CHAPTER X.
The Beautiful Vanilla 92
CHAPTER XI.
The Prince Asserts Himself 104
CHAPTER XII.
A Child Bride 121
CHAPTER XIII.
The Nuptials 141
CHAPTER XIV.
Lady Archibald 147
CHAPTER XV.
A Rope Ladder and Some Storms 153
CHAPTER XVI.
Parliament and the Prince’s Income 178
CHAPTER XVII.
A New Favourite and a Settlement 198
CHAPTER XVIII.
A Most Extraordinary Event 203
CHAPTER XIX.
Which Contains a Great Deal of Fussing and Fuming and a little
Poetry 221
CHAPTER XX.
The Prince is Cast Forth with His Family 247
CHAPTER XXI.
The Death of the Queen 261
CHAPTER XXII.
The Year of Mourning 282
CHAPTER XXIII.
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