Chapter III: The First Year of Married Life

The Princess’s letters to her family intercepted--Unkindness
exhibited to her--The Prince seeks a separation--
Acceded to by the Princess--She removes to Blackheath--
Her income settled--Merry hours spent by the Princess
at Blackheath--Intercourse between the Princess and her
daughter--The Princess’s unfortunate acquaintance with Lady
Douglas--The boy Austin--Lady Douglas’s communication
to the Prince attacking the Princess--The _delicate
investigation_--Witnesses examined--The Princess hardly
dealt with--Her memorial to the King--Delay in doing her
justice--The Monarch’s decision--Exculpated from the
grave charges--Comparison of Caroline Queen of George II.
and Caroline of Brunswick--The Prince and Lady Hertford--
Miss Seymour, and the Prince’s subornation of witnesses--
Persecution of the Princess by her husband--Her appeal to
the King--Menace of publishing The Book--The Princess
received at the Queen’s Drawing-room--Meeting of the Prince
and Princess--Death of the Duke of Brunswick at the battle
of Jena--The Duchess a fugitive--The Princess’s debts 235

CHAPTER IV.

MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.

Imbecility finally settled on the mind of George
III.--Intercourse between the Princess and her daughter
obstructed--The Whigs betrayed by the Prince--Sketch
of the Duchess of Brunswick--The Princess’s Court at
Kensington diminished--Her pleasant dinners there--
Lively outbreaks of the Princess--Her sketches of character
--Her indiscretion--An adventure--Description of the
Princess Charlotte--The Princess of Wales’s demeanour to
her mother--Thoughtlessness of the Duchess of Brunswick--
Popularity of the Princess on the wane--Her determination
to bring her wrongs before the public--She becomes more
melancholy--An incident--Continued agitation of the
Princess--She becomes querulous--The poet Campbell
presented to her--A humorous fault of orthography--The
Prince and John Kemble 263