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 report rendered by the gentlemen who formed the Milan Commission
to inquire secretly into the conduct of the Princess of Wales was so
unfavourable to the latter that the Regent would have taken immediate
steps to have procured a divorce, but for the assurance of his legal
advisers that, even in the case of the Princess becoming Queen-consort,
she would never return to this country, provided only that the income
assigned to her by parliament as Princess of Wales were secured to her
after she was Queen. There had been some negotiation to this effect in
1819, when it was understood that the title of Queen would never be
assumed by the Princess if the payment of the annuity was punctually
observed. Her most intimate friends, therefore, did not reckon upon
her appearance in this country after the accession of her husband to
the throne.
Lord Liverpool addressed a letter to Mr. Brougham, adverting to this
arrangement as having been originally proposed by Queen Caroline--
a conclusion against which she protested with great indignation. Her
first step was to pass through France to St. Omer, where she awaited
the arrival of her legal advisers. The then reigning French monarch
had in the time of his own adversity received substantial aid and
continual courtesy from the Queen’s father; but now, in the hour of the
distresses of his former benefactor’s daughter, he beset her passage
through France with difficulties, and commanded her to be treated with
studied neglect. However mortified, she was a woman of too much spirit
to allow her mortification to be visible, and for the lack of official
honours she found consolation in the sympathy of the people. On the
first intimation of the omission of her name from the Liturgy, the
Queen wrote thus, without consulting any one: ‘The Queen of this Relams
wishes to be informed, through the medium of Lord Liverpool, First
Minister to the King of this Relams, for which reason or motife the
Queen name has been left out of the general Prayer-books in England,
and especially to prevent all her subjects to pay her such respect
which is due to the Queen. It is equally a great omittance towards the
King that his Consort Queen should be obliged to soummit to such great
neglect, or rather araisin from a perfect ignorance of the Archbishops
of the real existence of the Queen Caroline of England.’ It was
finely remarked by Mr. Denman, after he became the Solicitor-General
(at Brougham’s recommendation), that the Queen _was_ included in the
Liturgy, in the prayer ‘for all who are desolate and oppressed.’
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