The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . n. ^ Outward appearances, nevertheless, were still to a greatextent preserved, and the Queen, who was anxious thatthere should be no open rupture, asked the Prince andPrincess frequently to dinner, while the King was absent inHanover in 1736. The Princess, too, sometimes came to hearthe music, which was performed in the Public Dining Room,and to play cards in the Queens Gallery at night.^ Thesecivilities, however, were only conventional, and when theywere over, the Queen would yawn and say that the sillygaiety and rude railleries of her son,
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . n. ^ Outward appearances, nevertheless, were still to a greatextent preserved, and the Queen, who was anxious thatthere should be no open rupture, asked the Prince andPrincess frequently to dinner, while the King was absent inHanover in 1736. The Princess, too, sometimes came to hearthe music, which was performed in the Public Dining Room,and to play cards in the Queens Gallery at night.^ Thesecivilities, however, were only conventional, and when theywere over, the Queen would yawn and say that the sillygaiety and rude railleries of her son, joined to the flatstupidity of her daughter-in-law, had oppressed her to thatdegree that she felt ready to cry with the fatigue of theircompany, and felt herself more tired than she believed sheshould have done if she had carried them round the gardenson her back. In the meanwhile, the Princes efforts to get an increase ^ Herveys Memoirs^ vol. ii., p. 53. 2 Do., vol. ii., p. 132. View, lookin*,^ north-eastward, of the Palace and Gardens of Hampton. t in the reign of George II. From an engraving by J. Rocque, published about 1736. 1737] Cursing the Nauseous Beasts 267 of his allowance from the House of Commons, in oppositionto the wishes of his father, led to still further bitterness be-tween him and the rest of his family.^ While this questionwas in agitation, no words were too severe for him—theterms in which the Queen and Princess Caroline spoke ofhim passing anything we should conceive possible, if it werenot that we had them on the unimpeachable authority ofLord Hervey. Neither of them made much ceremony ofwishing a hundred times a day that the Prince might dropdown dead of an apoplexy—the Queen cursing the hour ofhis birth, and the Princess Caroline declaring she grudgedhim every hour he continued to breathe, adding that thenauseous beast cared for nobody but his nauseous self.^ The influence of the ministers led to the Princes claimsbeing defeated in both Houses of P
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