Chapter IV

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.
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Death of the Duke of Cumberland--His military career--The
_soubriquet_ of the Butcher given him--Anecdotes of him
--Marriage of Caroline Matilda--Her married life unhappy
--Dr. Struensee--_Mésalliances_ of the Dukes of Gloucester
and Cumberland--The Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor
--The Royal Marriage Act--Olivia Serres--Lord Clive’s
present of diamonds to the Queen--Disgusting correspondence
of the Duchess of Orleans and Queen Caroline--The Prince
of Wales’s juvenile Drawing-room--Simple life of the Royal
Family at Kew--Prince Frederick and his cottage beauty--
Paton and his naval pictures--Royal births--The custom
of cake and caudle observed--Petty larcenists--Sarah
Wilson and her subsequent life--Death of Princess Mary; and
of Princess Augusta, the King’s mother--The Earl of Bute
--Neglected education of George III.--Petronilla, Countess
Delitz--The Countess of Chesterfield, her conversion by
Whitfield--Efforts of Lady Huntingdon to convert the
gay Earl of Chesterfield--Mr. Fitzroy--George III. at
Portsmouth--Jacob Bryant’s ‘golden rule’--Witty remark
of Queen Charlotte--Attendant bards on Royalty; Mark
Smeaton, Thomas Abel, David Rizzio--The Princess under
the guardianship of Lady Charlotte Finch--The Queen’s
benevolence--Satirists 1