A FORGOTTEN PRINCE OF WALES.
National Portrait Gallery. Emery Walker.
FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES, AND HIS SISTERS AT KEW.
A FORGOTTEN
PRINCE OF WALES
BY
CAPTAIN HENRY CURTIES
Author of “When England Slept,” etc., etc.
LONDON
EVERETT & CO., LTD.
42 ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.
Dedicated by permission
to
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.G.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| [CHAPTER I.] | |
| Which Seizes upon the Prince as he comes into the World | [1] |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| The Falling in of a Great Legacy | [12] |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| The Prince at the Age of Nine | [18] |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| In which England gets a new King and Queen | [25] |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| A Double Event which did not come off | [41] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| The Prince and the London of 1728 | [50] |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
| Peter Wentworth’s Letters on the Prince’s Life | [60] |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
| The Prince’s Embarrassments | [73] |
| [CHAPTER IX.] | |
| The Duchess of Marlborough Throws for a Big Stake | [83] |
| [CHAPTER X.] | |
| The Beautiful Vanilla | [92] |
| [CHAPTER XI.] | |
| The Prince Asserts Himself | [104] |
| [CHAPTER XII.] | |
| A Child Bride | [121] |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] | |
| The Nuptials | [141] |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] | |
| Lady Archibald | [147] |
| [CHAPTER XV.] | |
| A Rope Ladder and Some Storms | [153] |
| [CHAPTER XVI.] | |
| Parliament and the Prince’s Income | [178] |
| [CHAPTER XVII.] | |
| A New Favourite and a Settlement | [198] |
| [CHAPTER XVIII.] | |
| A Most Extraordinary Event | [203] |
| [CHAPTER XIX.] | |
| Which Contains a Great Deal of Fussing and Fuming and a littlePoetry | [221] |
| [CHAPTER XX.] | |
| The Prince is Cast Forth with His Family | [247] |
| [CHAPTER XXI.] | |
| The Death of the Queen | [261] |
| [CHAPTER XXII.] | |
| The Year of Mourning | [282] |
| [CHAPTER XXIII.] | |
| A Husband and a Lover | [294] |
| [CHAPTER XXIV.] | |
| The Reconciliation | [306] |
| [CHAPTER XXV.] | |
| The Battle of Dettingen | [312] |
| [CHAPTER XXVI.] | |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | [321] |
| [CHAPTER XXVII.] | |
| Summer Days | [344] |
| [CHAPTER XXVIII.] | |
| Finis | [354] |
| [CHAPTER XXIX.] | |
| The Final Scene | [362] |
| [CHAPTER XXX.] | |
| The Residuum | [378] |