The Flashman Papers 01 - Flashman

Author:George Macdonald Fraser
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-04-20T23:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Lord Brougham's speech in May, 1839, "lashed the Queen … with unsparing severity" (Greville) and caused great controversy.

2 Lady Flora Hastings, Maid of Honour to the Duchess of Kent, was believed to be pregnant, until medical examination proved that she was not. She won great popular sympathy, but the young Queen, who had been bitterly hostile towards her, suffered dramatically in public esteem.

3 Captain John Reynolds, a particular butt of Cardigan's, was the centre of the notorious Black Bottle affair, in which his resignation was demanded because he was believed to have ordered a bottle of porter in the mess on guest night. Back

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