“Having thus finished this imperfect sketch of this inimitable character, I shall only add for the information of the curious, that this most incomparable Princess was given to us on the 31st July, 1737. Name indeed she has none. But had ever such a Princess a name? Or can any man name me such a Princess?”
“This paper,” comments the Duchess of Marlborough, “made me laugh, for I think there is a good deal of humour in it, and two very exact characters.”
Lord Hailes, who published the Duchess’s papers, comments as follows on this essay of Dr. Hollings:
“It is curious to see the various shapes which party resentment can assume. We have already met with a satire on Queen Caroline, in the form of an inscription to the honour of Queen Anne. And here more virulent satire appears under a quibbling character of the infant daughter of the Prince of Wales.”
FOOTNOTES:
[46] “The Griff” was one of the contemptuous titles bestowed at an early date on the Prince of Wales by his father.
[47] Lord Fanny was the nick-name given to Hervey.
[48] Hervey’s Memoirs Vol. iii., p. 231. This gives a very fair idea of public opinion on the subject.
CHAPTER XX.
The Prince is Cast Forth with His Family.[49]
If that phenomenon, the soft-hearted old lawyer, Lord Hardwicke, was moved to tears at the Prince’s position, that feeling did not extend to the King and Queen. On the morning of the 13th of September, the day before the Prince was to leave their roof, the following edifying remarks were made by them as they sat at breakfast: