By Lytton Strachey
ISBN-10: 1404326820
ISBN-13: 9781404326828
From bankruptcy I.: "On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, simply baby of the Prince Regent, and inheritor to the crown of britain. Her brief lifestyles had infrequently been a cheerful one. by means of nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had consistently longed for liberty; and he or she had by no means possessed it. She have been cited between violent family members quarrels, were early separated from her disreputable and whimsical mom, and passed over to the care of her disreputable and egocentric father. while she was once seventeen, he made up our minds to marry her off to the Prince of Orange; she, at first, acquiesced; yet, unexpectedly falling in love with Prince Augustus of Prussia, she made up our minds to wreck off the engagement. This used to be now not her old flame affair, for she had formerly carried on a clandestine correspondence with a Captain Hess. Prince Augustus used to be already married, morganatically, yet she did now not realize it, and he didn't inform her. whereas she was once spinning out the negotiations with the Prince of Orange, the allied sovereign--it was once June, 1814--arrived in London to have a good time their victory. between them, within the suite of the Emperor of Russia, used to be the younger and good-looking Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. He made a number of makes an attempt to draw the attention of the Princess, yet she, with her center somewhere else, paid little or no recognition. subsequent month the Prince Regent, studying that his daughter was once having mystery conferences with Prince Augustus, abruptly seemed upon the scene and, after pushing aside her loved ones, sentenced her to a strict seclusion in Windsor Park. "God Almighty provide me patience!" she exclaimed, falling on her knees in an pain of agitation: then she jumped up, ran down the backstairs and out into the road, hailed a passing cab, and drove to her mother's condo in Bayswater. She was once chanced on, pursued, and at size, yielding to the persuasions of her uncles, the Dukes of York and Sussex, of Brougham, and of the Bishop of Salisbury, she lower back to Carlton residence at o'clock within the morning. She used to be immured at Windsor, yet not more was once heard of the Prince of Orange. Prince Augustus, too, disappeared. the way in which was once finally open to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. This Prince used to be smart adequate to get around the Regent, to provoke the Ministers, and to make buddies with one other of the Princess's uncles, the Duke of Kent. during the Duke he used to be in a position to converse privately with the Princess, who now declared that he used to be essential to her happiness. whilst, after Waterloo, he used to be in Paris, the Duke's aide-de-camp carried letters backwards and forwards around the Channel. In January 1816 he used to be invited to England, and in could the wedding happened. "
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But then, the firmer his position and the wider his influence, the better for Europe; of that he was quite certain. And besides, he was a constitutional monarch; and it would be highly indecorous in a constitutional monarch to have any aims that were low or personal. As for Stockmar, the disinterestedness which Palmerston had noted was undoubtedly a basic element in his character. The ordinary schemer is always an optimist; and Stockmar, racked by dyspepsia and haunted by gloomy forebodings, was a constitutionally melancholy man.
On the triumph of the Whigs he became one of the leading members of the Government; and when Lord Grey retired from the premiership he quietly stepped into the vacant place. Nor was it only in the visible signs of fortune that Fate had been kind to him. Bound to succeed, and to succeed easily, he was gifted with so fine a nature that his success became him. His mind, at once supple and copious, his temperament, at once calm and sensitive, enabled him not merely to work, but to live with perfect facility and with the grace of strength.
In this King Leopold encouraged her. After his return to Brussels, he had resumed his correspondance in a more serious strain; he discussed the details of foreign politics; he laid down the duties of kingship; he pointed out the iniquitous foolishness of the newspaper press. On the latter subject, indeed, he wrote with some asperity. ” On the functions of a monarch, his views were unexceptionable. ” At the same time the Princess’s tastes were opening out. Though she was still passionately devoted to riding and dancing, she now began to have a genuine love of music as well, and to drink in the roulades and arias of the Italian opera with high enthusiasm.
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