Transcriber’s Note: Italics are enclosed in _underscores_. Additional notes will be found near the end of this ebook. THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER _VOL. II._ LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER BY DR. DORAN, F.S.A. AUTHOR OF ‘TABLE TRAITS’ ‘HABITS AND MEN’ ETC. FOURTH EDITION _CAREFULLY REVISED AND MUCH ENLARGED_ IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. [Illustration] LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty 1875 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. _CHARLOTTE SOPHIA--Cont._ CHAPTER IV. BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES. PAGE Death of the Duke of Cumberland--His military career--The _soubriquet_ of the Butcher given him--Anecdotes of him --Marriage of Caroline Matilda--Her married life unhappy --Dr. Struensee--_Mésalliances_ of the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland--The Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor --The Royal Marriage Act--Olivia Serres--Lord Clive’s present of diamonds to the Queen--Disgusting correspondence of the Duchess of Orleans and Queen Caroline--The Prince of Wales’s juvenile Drawing-room--Simple life of the Royal Family at Kew--Prince Frederick and his cottage beauty-- Paton and his naval pictures--Royal births--The custom of cake and caudle observed--Petty larcenists--Sarah Wilson and her subsequent life--Death of Princess Mary; and of Princess Augusta, the King’s mother--The Earl of Bute --Neglected education of George III.--Petronilla, Countess Delitz--The Countess of Chesterfield, her conversion by Whitfield--Efforts of Lady Huntingdon to convert the gay Earl of Chesterfield--Mr. Fitzroy--George III. at Portsmouth--Jacob Bryant’s ‘golden rule’--Witty remark of Queen Charlotte--Attendant bards on Royalty; Mark Smeaton, Thomas Abel, David Rizzio--The Princess under the guardianship of Lady Charlotte Finch--The Queen’s benevolence--Satirists 1 CHAPTER V. PERILS, PROGRESS, AND PASTIMES.