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I believe it has been said; but, like Madlle. de Montpensier my imagination and my memory are sometimes confounded.
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Ben Jonson.
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George the Fourth, after conversing with her, said with emphasis, "She is the only real queen!"
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In a letter to Mrs. Thrale.
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In the Grosvenor gallery. There is a duplicate of this picture in the Dulwich gallery.
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She afterwards played Lady Randolph for Mr. Charles Kemble's benefit, and performed Lady Macbeth at the request of the Princess Charlotte in 1816. This was her final appearance. She was then sixty-one, and her powers unabated. I recollect a characteristic passage in one of her letters relating to this circumstance: she says, "The princess honoured me with several gracious (not graceful) nods; but the newspapers gave me credit for much more sensibility than I either felt or displayed on the occasion. I was by no means so much overwhelmed by her Royal Highness's kindness, as they were pleased to represent me."
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"For time hath laid his hand so gently on her
As he too had been awed."
De Montfort.