The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . with Lady Yarmouth in a select party. ^ As George II. grew older, his temper did not improve, andwhen irritated by his ministers or attendants, he would kickhis hat or wig about the room.^ With his grandson, after-wards George III., his anger sometimes became quite un-controllable ; and once, in the State Apartments of HamptonCourt Palace, his sacred Majesty so far forgot his kinglydignity as to box the ears of the youthful heir of the insult, it is said, so disgusted George III. with theplace, that, according to his son the Duke
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . with Lady Yarmouth in a select party. ^ As George II. grew older, his temper did not improve, andwhen irritated by his ministers or attendants, he would kickhis hat or wig about the room.^ With his grandson, after-wards George III., his anger sometimes became quite un-controllable ; and once, in the State Apartments of HamptonCourt Palace, his sacred Majesty so far forgot his kinglydignity as to box the ears of the youthful heir of the insult, it is said, so disgusted George III. with theplace, that, according to his son the Duke of Sussex, hecould never after be induced to think of it as a residenceand it is to this, therefore, that is due the fact that, since thedeath of George II., Hampton Court has never been ^ Walpoles Reminiscences. the person to whom the Duke ot 2 Memoirs of his Own Time, vol. Sussex related it, while passing throughi) P* 313- State Apartments. See Jesses ^ Do., vol. i., p. 417. Life of George III., vol. i., p. lo.* Told to Mr. J. Heneage Jesse, by. 1751] Occasional Visits to the Palace, 285 inhabited by any sovereign of these realms, and that the his-tory of Wolseys palace, which for nearly three centuries hadformed part of the majestic current of English national life,has, during the last hundred years or more, flowed in a quietand uneventful channel of its own. Previous, however, to the accession of the third George,the Palace had gradually, as a consequence of the continuedabsence of the Court after the death of Queen Caroline,became more and more of a show place, to which excursionswere frequently made from the neighbouring towns andcountry houses, and also from London. At this period,visitors were conducted through the State Rooms by thedeputy-housekeeper, who, for her services, exacted a fee,the greater part of which found its way into the pockets ofthe lady housekeeper, whose post was consequently one muchsought after and very lucrative. Horace Walpole, who lived within
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