Caroline grew very fond of Richmond. She interested herself closely in the prosperity of the village, and in the welfare of its poorer inhabitants, aiding the needy, and subscribing liberally to the schools and charities. In later years she always came back to Richmond as to home, and though her grandson George the Third, who resented her attitude to his father Frederick Prince of Wales, tried to destroy every sign of her occupation, it still remains identified with her memory. FOOTNOTES TO BOOK II, CHAPTER VIII: [87] Letter of Lady Hervey to the Countess of Suffolk, Bath, 7th June, 1725. [88] Letter of the Duchess of Orleans to the Raugravine Louise, Paris, 28th July, 1718. [89] He was the author of the famous _Memoirs of the Reign of George II_. [90] Mary Bellenden (Mrs. John Campbell) to Mrs. Howard, Bath, 1720. [91] _Suffolk Correspondence._ [92] Miss Howe to Mrs. Howard, The Holt, Farnham, 1719 (_Suffolk Correspondence_). [93] Master of the Horse to the Prince of Wales, eldest son of Lord Scarborough. [94] The Hon. Bridget Carteret, a maid of honour. [95] Miss Howe to Mrs. Howard, The Holt, Farnham, 1st October, 1719. [96] _Weekly Journal_ and _Saturday’s Post_, 13th June, 1719. [97] Brice’s _Weekly Journal_, 30th December, 1719. [98] The Countess of Bristol to the Earl of Bristol, Richmond, 14th July, 1719. [99] _Daily Post_, 23rd August, 1721. CHAPTER IX. THE RECONCILIATION. 1718–1720. The life of the Princess of Wales at this time was apparently an endless round of pleasure. Her days were full of interest and movement, and in the eyes of the world she seemed perfectly happy. But she had her secret sorrow, and a good deal of her gaiety was forced to please her husband. He came first with her, but she was a devoted mother, and there is abundant evidence to show that Caroline felt acutely the separation from her children. The King would not allow them to visit their parents, nor would he suffer the Prince to come and see them, and upon the occasions when the Princess was admitted to St. James’s or Kensington, to visit her children, he at first refused to receive her. She went whenever she could spare an hour from her exacting duties at Leicester House, but she had always to obtain leave from the King. In spite of this separation the little princesses kept their love for their parents, and always greeted their mother with demonstrations of joy when she came, and cried bitterly when she went away. “The other day,” writes the Duchess of Orleans, “the poor little things gathered a basket of cherries and sent it to their father, with a message that though they were not allowed to go to him, their hearts, souls and thoughts were with their dear parents always.”[100] Every effort was made by the Prince and Princess to obtain their children, and the law was set in motion, but after tedious delays and protracted arguments, the Lord Chief Justice, Parker, gave it as his opinion that the King