As wide a separation as possible was made between mother and child. They were happy Saturday afternoons that the Princess Charlotte was allowed to spend at Blackheath, where she met the Hon. Miss Wellesley (afterwards Countess of Westmoreland) and other children, and partook of childish delights. Under her grandmother the Queen, at Windsor, she was stiffly disciplined. Once expressing a wish to be allowed to go and say ‘good-bye’ to a young friend who was about to leave England, Queen Charlotte remarked ‘it was contrary to princely dignity to seek after any one.’ Some young girls who had been allowed to come to Windsor, and were the companions of the Princess for an occasional day, were not allowed to grow into familiarity or intimacy. The old Queen’s sour notice of them to her grand-daughter was: ‘I cannot _taste_ these young ladies!’ In this cruel way were all the warm sympathies of a warm-hearted child set at naught. The relations into which the Prince entered with Lady Hertford, while the question of the guardianship of Miss Seymour was pending, led to the ascendency of that lady, and brought to a final close the intimacy which had existed between the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert. At a dinner given to Louis XVIII., to which she was invited, the Prince replied to her inquiry as to where she was to sit, ‘You know, Madam, you have no place.’ ‘None, sir,’ she rejoined, ‘but what you are pleased to give me.’ He assigned none, and she kept away. The last morning she ever saw the Prince was at a soirée at Devonshire House. The Duchess was conducting her to the Duke’s apartments, where he was confined with the gout, but where he received a few old friends. As the two ladies passed through one of the rooms, Mrs. Fitzherbert saw the Prince and Lady Hertford in a tête-à-tête conversation, and nearly fainted under all the impressions which then rushed upon her mind, but, taking a glass of water, she recovered and passed on.[10] CHAPTER IV. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS. Imbecility finally settled on the mind of George III.--Intercourse between the Princess and her daughter obstructed--The Whigs betrayed by the Prince--Sketch of the Duchess of Brunswick-- The Princess’s Court at Kensington diminished--Her pleasant dinners there--Lively outbreaks of the Princess--Her sketches of character--Her indiscretion--An adventure--Description of the Princess Charlotte--The Princess of Wales’s demeanour to her mother--Thoughtlessness of the Duchess of Brunswick-- Popularity of the Princess on the wane--Her determination to bring her wrongs before the public--She becomes more melancholy --An incident--Continued agitation of the Princess--She becomes querulous--The poet Campbell presented to her--A humorous fault of orthography--The Prince and John Kemble.