Retirement of Lady Suffolk--Tact of Queen Caroline-- Arrogance of Princess Anne--Private life of the royal family--The Count de Roncy, the French refugee--German predilections of the Queen--A scene at Court--Queen Caroline’s declining health--Ambitious aspirations of Princess Anne--Bishop Hoadly and the see of Winchester-- The Queen and the clergy--The Queen appointed Regent--The King and Madame Walmoden--Lord Hervey’s imaginary post-obit diary--The Queen’s farewell interview with Lady Suffolk --Grief made fashionable--The temper of the King on his return--A scene: _dramatis personæ_, the King, Queen, and Lord Hervey--Lady Deloraine (Pope’s _Delia_) a royal favourite--An angry scene; between the King and Queen-- The King’s opinion of Bishop Hoadly--Dissension between the King and Prince--The royal libertine at Hanover--Court revels--Lady Bolingbroke and the Queen 223 CHAPTER V. THE MARRIAGE OF FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES. The Queen’s cleverness--Princess Augusta of Saxe Gotha, the selected bride of Prince Frederick--Spirited conduct of Miss Vane, the Prince’s mistress--The King anxious for a matrimonial alliance with the Court of Prussia-- Prussian intrigue to prevent this--The Prussian _mandats_ for entrapping recruits--Quarrels and challenge to duel, between King George and the Prussian monarch--The silly duel prevented--Arrival of the bride--The royal lovers --Disgraceful squabbles of the Princes and Princesses --The marriage--Brilliant assemblage in the bridal chamber--Lady Diana Spencer proposed as a match for the Prince--_Débût_ of Mr. Pitt, afterwards Lord Chatham, in the House of Commons--Riot of the footmen at Drury Lane Theatre --Ill-humour exhibited by the Prince towards the Queen 262 CHAPTER VI. AT HOME AND OVER THE WATER.