CONTENTS TO VOL. II.


CHAPTER I.

Miss Knight’s Narrative of Events attending the Rupture of the Orange-Marriage—Dismissal of the Household of the Princess Charlotte—Letter to the Regent—Miss Knight’s Pension[1]

CHAPTER II.

The Princess’s Birthday—Suspected Intrigues—Letter to the Queen—The Year 1815—Journal continued[26]

CHAPTER III.

Preparations for War—The Queen’s Levee—Treatment of the Princess Charlotte—Napoleon and the Bourbons—Rumours from the Seat of War—The Battle of Waterloo[52]

CHAPTER IV.

Rejoicings for Waterloo—The Marriage of the Duke of Cumberland—Prince Leopold—Marriage Rumours—Marriage of the Princess Charlotte—How it was brought about—Later Revelations—Character of the Princess Charlotte[71]

CHAPTER V.

France revisited—Chantilly—Parisian Society—The Court of the Bourbons—The Prince de Condé—Marshal Marmont—The French Stage—Invitation from the Princess Charlotte[92]

CHAPTER VI.

Return to England—Meeting with the Princess Charlotte—France under the Bourbons—Parisian Society[111]

CHAPTER VII.

Society in Paris—Journey to Homburg—The Landgrave and the Landgravine—the Dowager Queen of Würtemberg—Christmas at Louisburg[133]

CHAPTER VIII.

Departure from Louisburg—Paris—Coronation of Charles X.—London—The Princess Charlotte’s Monument—Anecdotes of Charles X.—Return to Germany[148]

CHAPTER IX.

Paris and London—Death of the Queen-Dowager of Würtemberg—Homburg—The Landgrave and Landgravine—Life at a German Court—Return to Louisburg—Baden[165]

CHAPTER X.

Genoa—The Pallavicini Family—Character of the Genoese—Return to England—The Royal Family at Brighton—London—Gloomy Retrospect.—Anecdotes[183]

CHAPTER XI.

Anecdotes—Talleyrand—Charles Albert—Masséna—Ferdinand of Spain—Lord Wellesley—Alfieri—Charles X.—Death of Miss Knight[202]