Queen Charlotte had looked grimly cold upon the Princess, but she gave an entertainment in honour of the event which made Caroline of Brunswick a Princess of Wales. The locality was Frogmore, and the scene was brilliant, except that the hostess looked, as Lord Malmesbury once described her, ‘civil, but stiff,’ and her daughter-in-law superbly dressed, and black as midnight. Meanwhile, the Prince’s first wife, Mrs. Fitzherbert, was in sorrow. Their honeymoon had not lasted long. The Prince had met Lady Jersey at Brighton, and a letter from him, which was put into Mrs. Fitzherbert’s hands at a dinner at the Duke of Clarence’s, where she had expected to meet the Prince, satisfied her that all intimacy between them had come to an end. From that time, according to what appears to be an erroneous statement in the ‘Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert,’ ‘she never saw the Prince;’ and this interruption of their intimacy was followed by his marriage with the Queen (Princess) Caroline, brought about, as Mrs. Fitzherbert conceived, under the twofold influence of the pressure of his debts on the mind of the Prince, and a wish on the part of Lady Jersey to enlarge the royal establishment, in which she was to have an important situation! CHAPTER III. THE FIRST YEAR OF MARRIED LIFE. The Princess’s letters to her family intercepted--Unkindness exhibited to her--The Prince seeks a separation--Acceded to by the Princess--She removes to Blackheath--Her income settled--Merry hours spent by the Princess at Blackheath --Intercourse between the Princess and her daughter--The Princess’s unfortunate acquaintance with Lady Douglas--The boy Austin--Lady Douglas’s communication to the Prince attacking the Princess--The _delicate investigation_--Witnesses examined --The Princess hardly dealt with--Her memorial to the King --Delay in doing her justice--The Monarch’s decision-- Exculpated from the grave charges--Comparison of Caroline Queen of George II. and Caroline of Brunswick--The Prince and Lady Hertford--Miss Seymour, and the Prince’s subornation of witnesses--Persecution of the Princess by her husband-- Her appeal to the King--Menace of publishing _The Book_--The Princess received at the Queen’s drawing-room--Meeting of the Prince and Princess--Death of the Duke of Brunswick at the battle of Jena--The Duchess a fugitive--The Princess’s debts.