The book: or the investigation of the conduct of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales / being the evidence given under a Commission from the King; with Her Royal Highness's defence and other important documents.

  • Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Date:
1813
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Credit: The book: or the investigation of the conduct of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales / being the evidence given under a Commission from the King; with Her Royal Highness's defence and other important documents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    W1S lying on the ground. The Princess and a Lady, ■who, I believe, was Miss Ileyman, came on foot, and walked several times before the door. Lady Stewart was with me, and said, she thought that the Piinccss wanted something, and that 1 ought to go to her. 1 went to her. She said, she did not want any thing but she would walk, in ; that 1 had a very pretty little girl. She came in and staid some time. About a fortnight after Sir J. D. and 1 received an invitation to go to Montague-house, after that 1 was very freijuently at Montague-house, and dined there. The Princess dined frequently with us. About May or June, 1802, the I’lincess first talked to me about her own conduct. Sir S. Smith, who had been Sir John’s friend for more than 20 years, came to Eng- land about November, 1801, and came to live in our l.ouse. , I understood the Princess knew Sir Sydney Smith before she was Princess of Wales. The Princess saw Sir S. Smith as Irequently as ourselves. W e-were usually kept at Montague-house later than the rest of the party, often till three or four in the morning. I never observed any impropriety of con- duct between Sir S. Smith and the Princess, 1 made the Prince^s a visit at Montague-house, in March, 1802, fi r about a fortnight. She desired me to come there, becau.se Miss Gartli was ill. In May or June follow- ing, the Princess came to my bouse alone : she said she came to tell me something that had happened to her, and desired me to guess, f guessed several things, and at last 1 said, 1 could not guess any thing more. She then said she was pregnant, and that the child had come to life. I don’t know whether she sajd ou that day or a fewdays before, that she was at break- fast at Lady ^^'illoughby’s, tliat the milk flowed up to her breast and came through her gow n ; that she threw a napkin over herself and went with Lady Willougiiby.into her room, and adjusted herself to prevent its being observed. She never told me who was the fatlier of the child. Slie said she hoped it would be a boy. She said that if it -was discovered