“Connaught House, May 26, 1814.”
(Enclosures.)
THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
“Windsor Castle, May 23, 1814.
“The Queen considers it to be her duty to lose no time in acquainting the Princess of Wales, that she has received a communication from her son, the Prince Regent, in which he states, that her Majesty’s intention of holding two drawing-rooms in the ensuing month having been notified to the public, he must declare that he considers that his own presence at her court cannot be dispensed with; and that he desires it may be distinctly understood, for reasons of which he alone can be the judge, to be his fixed and unalterable determination not to meet the Princess of Wales upon any occasion, either in public or private.
“The Queen is thus placed under the painful necessity of intimating to the Princess of Wales the impossibility of her Majesty’s receiving her Royal Highness at her drawing-rooms.
“Charlotte R.”
ANSWER OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE QUEEN.