"Detachments of the Queen's, or Second Regiment of Light Dragoons, are stationed on the Essex Road to escort the Queen of Denmark to Harwich. 'Tis imagined the Princess will only stop to change horses, as the necessary refreshments are carried in the coach. One of the King's cooks goes over with her Royal Highness."[59] [59] _The Public Advertiser_, October 1, 1766. George III. personally superintended the arrangements for his sister's marriage and journey to Denmark. We find from him the following letter to the Secretary of State:-- "I return you the proposed ceremonial for the espousals of my sister which I entirely approve of. The full power must undoubtedly _ex officio_ be read by you, and the solemn contract by the Archbishop of Canterbury. I desire, therefore, that you will have it copied, only inserting the royal apartments of St. James's Palace instead of the Chapel Royal, and my brother's Christian name in those places where it has, I think, evidently been, through the negligence of the copier, omitted where he speaks. As in all other solemn declarations, that is always used as well as the title. The Archbishop should then have it communicated to him, that he may see whether it is conformable to precedents, besides the dignity of his station calls for that mark of regard from me."[60] [60] Letter of King George III. to the Right Honourable Henry Seymour Conway, Secretary of State, Queen's House, September 20, 1766. British Museum, Egerton MS. 82, fol. 20. On Wednesday, October 1, 1766, between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, the Princess Matilda was married by proxy to the King of Denmark in the council chamber of St. James's Palace. Her brother, the Duke of York, stood for Christian VII., and the ceremony was performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the presence of the King, the Queen, the Princess-Dowager of Wales, and other members of the royal family. A large company of nobility, gentry and foreign ministers were also present. Immediately after the ceremony the Queen of Denmark, as she was called, received the congratulations of the court, but she looked pale and dejected and her eyes were full of unshed tears. The same evening the Queen took formal leave of her brother, George III.