Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, volume 2 (of 2)Doran, Dr. (John)
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Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, volume 2 (of 2)
Doran, Dr. (John)
Hanover, House of; Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography
The Princess arrives at Hamburgh--Assumes the title of Countess
of Wolfenbüttel--Travels in Switzerland--Meeting of the
Princess with the ex-Empress Maria Louisa, and the divorced
wife of the Grand Duke Constantine--The Princess at Milan--
Her English attendants fall off--Her reception by the Pope--
At a masked ball at Naples--Her imprudence--Her festivals
at Como--The Princess at Palermo--Bergami her chamberlain
--The Princess at Genoa--Corresponds with Murat--Personal
vanity of Queen Charlotte--The Pope visits the Princess--
Surrounded by Italians--Her roving life--Proceeds to Syracuse
--At Jericho--Lands at Tunis and visits the Bey--Liberates
European slaves--The Princess at Athens--At Troy--At
Constantinople--At Ephesus--At Acre--Stopped at Jaffa--
Enters Jerusalem--Her reception by the Capuchin Friars--
Institutes a new order of chivalry--Life on board the polacca
--The Princess and Countess Oldi at Como--Private theatricals
a favourite pastime--Agents and spies--Innocent incidents
converted into crimes--Bergami divested of his knighthood--
The Princess at Carlsruhe--Contemptuously neglected at Vienna
--The chamberlain her only attendant--The Princess in public
--Deeply affected by the death of Princess Charlotte--As
uncircumspect as ever.
The early period of the travels of the Princess on the Continent calls
for nothing more than simple record. She left the ‘Jason’ under all
the customary honours; and when she entered Hamburgh on the 16th she
dropped her English to assume a German title, that of the Countess of
Wolfenbüttel. Her suite consisted of the two ladies we have already
named, with Mr. St. Leger and Sir William Gell. Mr. Keppel Craven
subsequently joined her at Brunswick. Dr. Holland accompanied her as
physician, and Captain Hesse as equerry. Thus attended she appeared
at the theatre at Hamburgh, where she was received with a storm of
applause, and entered Brunswick, where she was welcomed by her brother
the Duke, and with a loud-tongued cordiality by the inhabitants.
The reception touched her, but not deeply enough to induce her to
profit by it. Within a fortnight she brushed the tears from her eyes,
left Brunswick behind her, and was on the high-road of Europe, as
self-willed and as obstinate a Princess as ever destroyed a reputation
and rushed blindfold upon ruin.
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