Behind the Throne by Adrian Tinniswood

Author:Adrian Tinniswood [TINNISWOOD, ADRIAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

* The stream provoked some laboured wit. “It was observed by Mr Jekyll [the lawyer Joseph Jekyll]… that the Lords Rivers and Brooke should be Stewards, and Admiral Fish master of the ceremonies. Mr Manners Sutton [brother of the Archbishop of Canterbury] added, ‘Yes, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells Chaplain.’ Somebody near said, ‘The Banks family, I perceive, are on both sides.’” (Lancashire Gazette and General Advertiser, 29 June 1811)

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THE RESPECTABLE HOUSEHOLD

Sixteen years after Caroline’s death, and seven years after the death of her unlovely husband George IV, an open carriage accompanied by outriders in royal livery drew up at the grand entrance to the Duchess of Kent’s apartments at Kensington Palace. Almost immediately a small, slight figure of a girl was seen being helped into the landau, followed by two older women—the girl’s mother and her German governess. A line of mounted lancers on Palace Green held back the cheering crowds as the small procession made its way through Hyde Park and along Constitution Hill before passing under the Marble Arch into the great courtyard of Buckingham Palace.

The eighteen-year-old Queen Victoria was moving house.

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