“So it was given out, but it is possible that she retained some, and that they had a bearing upon certain events which occurred later, and which will be spoken of in their place.”
Doran comments on this fact as follows:—
“By this action the world lost some rare supplementary chapters to a Chronique Scandaleuse.”
That might have been so, or not.
“When Lord North arrived at Kensington Palace with the news of the death of the Prince, he found the King looking over a card table at which sat his daughter, the Princess Amelia, the Duchess of Dorset, the Duke of Grafton, and the Countess of Yarmouth—the Walmoden; the Georges seemed fond of giving Norfolk titles to their improper belongings—vide Walsingham. Lord North entered quietly and stood beside the King; in a whisper he told him of his son’s death.
“‘Dead, is he?’ he remarked turning to the messenger, ‘why, they told me he was better.’ Then he went round and leant over his mistress’s shoulder:
“‘Countess,’ he said very casually, ‘Fred is gone.’
That was all!