Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert: With an Account of Her Marriage with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Afterwards King George IV.R. Bentley, 1856 - 202 pages |
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Page 186 - When he denied the calumny in question, he meant to deny it, not merely with regard to the effect of certain existing laws, but to deny it in toto, in point of fact as well as law. The fact not only never could have happened legally, but never did happen in any way whatsoever, and had from the beginning been a base and malicious falsehood.
Page 79 - Prince's speech on this occasion ; but, according to the author last named, it was substantially as follows : — " But I beg farther that my wife be received at court, and proportionately as your Majesty receives her, and pays her attention from this time, so shall I render my attentions to your Majesty. The lady I have married is worthy of all homage, and my very confidential friends, with some of my wife's relations only, witnessed our marriage. Have you not always taught me to consider myself...
Page 15 - I should have felt the most unfeigned joy at an event which I knew would contribute so much to your Royal Highness's satisfaction ; but I was told at the same time, that, from a variety of circumstances which had been observed and put together, there was reason to suppose that you were going to take the very desperate step (pardon the expression) of marrying her at this moment.
Page 22 - Highness will think, illtimed letter ; but such as it is, it is dictated by pure zeal and attachment to your Royal Highness. "With respect to Mrs. Fitzherbert, she is a person with whom I have scarcely the honour of being acquainted, but I hear from everybody that her character is irreproachable and her manners most amiable.
Page 21 - I did not want, of your having that true regard and affection for me, which it is not only the wish but, the ambition of my life to merit. Make yourself easy, my dear friend ! Believe me the world will now soon be convinced that there not only is not, but never was, any ground for those reports, which of late have been so malevolently circulated.
Page 20 - ... spirit, talents, or anything that is good, the more will they be suspected and oppressed, and the more will they regret the being deprived of what they must naturally think themselves entitled to. I could mention many other considerations upon this business, if I did not think those I have stated of so much importance that smaller ones would divert your attention from them rather than add to their weight. That I have written with a freedom which on any other occasion would be unbecoming, I readily...
Page 191 - ... of the Prince, to contradict the report of the marriage in the fullest and most unqualified terms : — it was, he said, " a miserable calumny, a low malicious falsehood, which had been propagated without doors, and made the wanton sport of the vulgar ; — a tale, fit only to impose upon the lowest orders, a monstrous invention, a report of a fact which had not the smallest degree of foundation, actually impossible to have happened.
Page 18 - Parliament for a sanction for what you have already done in contempt of it? If there are children, will it not be said that we must look for future applications to legitimate them, and consequently be liable to disputes for the succession between the eldest son, and the eldest son after the legal marriage? And will not the entire annulling of the whole marriage be suggested as the most secure way of preventing all such disputes?
Page 19 - Parliament, but yet is known to have been solemnized, as it certainly will be known if it takes place, these are the consequences : first, that at all events any child born in the interim is immediately illegitimated ; and next, that arguments will be drawn from the circumstances of the concealed marriage against the public one. It will be said, that a woman who has lived with you as your wife without being so, is not fit to be Queen of England ; and thus the very thing that is done for the sake...
Page 109 - I have taken a very quiet apartment, and live very retired, seeing occasionally some friends. The Duke of Orleans came to see me the moment I arrived, with a thousand kind messages from the King and Queen, desiring me to go to them, which I accordingly have done. Nothing could exceed the kindness of their reception of me : they are old acquaintances of mine. . . . They have given me a general invitation to go there every evening whenever I like it, which suits me very much.