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 of Brunswick
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    blame him : that she should take other children, and have quite a nursery. 1 saw the Princess on a Sun- day, either the 30th or 31st October, 1802, walking before her door. She was dressed so as to conceal her pregnancy. She had a long cloak, and a very great muff. She had just returned from Greenwich Church. She looked very ill, and 1 thought must be very near her time. About a week or ten days after this, I received a note from the Princess, to desire that I would not come to Montague House, for they were apprehen- sive that the children they had taken had liad the measles in their clothes', and that she was afraid my child might take it. When the Princess came to see me during my lying-in, she told me that, when she should be brought to bed, she wished 1 would not come to her for some time, for she miglit be confused in seeing me. About the end of December I went to Gloucestershire, and stayed there about a month. When I returned, which was in January, I went to Montague House, and was let in. The Princess w'as packing up something in a black box. Upon the sofa a child was lying, covered over with a piece of red cloth. The Princess got up, and took me by the hand. She then led me to the sofa, and said, there is the child, I had him only two days after I saw you. The words were, either 1 had him, or I was brought to bed : the words were such as clearly im- ported that it was her own child. She said she got very well through it; she showed me a mark on the child’s hand, it is a pink mark. Tlie Princess said, she has a mark like your little girl. 1 saw the child after- wards frequently with the Princess quite till Christ- mas, 1803, when I left Blackheath, I saw the mark upon the child’s hand, and I am sure that it was the same child, I never saw any other child there. The Princess Charlotte used to see the child and play with him. The child used to call the Princess of Wales Mamma.” I saw the child looking at the window of the Princess’s house about a month ago, before