Success of Admiral Vernon--Royal visit to ‘Bartlemy Fair’-- Party-spirit runs high about the King and Prince-- Lady Pomfret--The mad Duchess of Buckingham--Anecdote of Lady Sundon--Witty remark of Lady Mary Wortley--_Fracas_ at Kensington Palace--The battle of Dettingen--A precocious child--Marriage of Princess Mary--A new opposition-- Prince George--Lady Yarmouth installed at Kensington-- Death of Prince Frederick--Conduct of the King on heaving of this event--Bubb Dodington’s extravagant grief-- The funeral scant--Conduct of the widowed Princess-- Opposition of the Prince to the King not undignified-- Jacobite epitaph on the Prince--The Prince’s rebuke for a frivolous jeer on Lady Huntingdon--The Prince’s patronage of literary men--Lady Archibald Hamilton, the Prince’s favourite--The Prince and the Quakers--Anecdote of Prince George--Princely appreciation of Lady Huntingdon 386 CHAPTER XI. THE LAST YEARS OF A REIGN. Princess Augusta named Regent in the event of a minority-- Cause of the Prince’s death--Death of the Prince of Orange --The King’s fondness for the theatre--Allusion to the King’s age--Death of the Queen of Denmark--Her married life unhappy--Suffered from a similar cause with her mother --Rage of Lady Suffolk at a sermon by Whitfield--Lady Huntingdon insulted by her--War in Canada--Daily life of the King--Establishments of the sons of Frederick--Death of the truth-loving Princess Caroline--Deaths of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Anne--Queen Caroline’s rebuke of her --Death of the King--Dr. Porteous’s eulogistic epitaph on him--The King’s personal property--The royal funeral-- The burlesque Duke of Newcastle 408 _CHARLOTTE SOPHIA_, WIFE OF GEORGE III. CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF THE BRIDE. Lady Sarah Lennox, the object of George III.’s early affections --The fair Quaker--Matrimonial commission of Colonel Græme--Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburgh--Her spirited letter to the King of Prussia--Demanded in marriage by George III.--Arrival in England--Her progress to London --Colchester and its candied eringo-root--Entertained by Lord Abercorn--Arrival in London, and reception--Claim of the Irish peeresses advocated by Lord Charlemont--The royal marriage--The first Drawing-room--A comic anecdote --The King and Queen at the Chapel Royal--At the theatre; accidents on the occasion--The coronation--Incidents and anecdotes connected with it--The young Pretender said to have been present--The coronation produced at the theatre 423 CHAPTER II. COURT AND CITY.