Category: History - British
Fox's denial of the marriage--Once more at Brighton--Again in 1788--The Prince at a fatal prize-fight--His birthday--Dress at Brighton--The Prince leases his house at Brighton--Unfilial conduct of the Prince--Probability of a Regency 109-122
Final rupture between the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert--That lady and William IV.--Her kindly relations with the Royal Family--Her death--The King's illness--The Regency--Visitor...
34. CHAPTER XIII.About this time the _émigrés_ poured into Brighton, and happy were those who could thus save their lives. Here is a contemporary account, given in the _Sussex Weekly Advertiser_...
39. CHAPTER XVIII.The Regent and Admiral Nagle--A quiet time at the Pavilion--The Regent's extravagance--His yacht--Sham fight and caricature thereon--A cruise to the French coast--Royal visitors...
27. CHAPTER VI.In 1784 the Prince of Wales had a somewhat serious illness, and we read in the _Morning Herald_ of July 16 that 'His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, having been advised by...
42. CHAPTER XXI.'In its general plan, dimensions, and principal architectural features, this apartment nearly corresponds with the Music Room; but the decorations and ornamental work are entire...
35. CHAPTER XIV.Early in the summer of 1794 another encampment took place at Brighton, about a mile and a half to the west of the town, as it then was. It consisted of about 7,000 men, and did...
36. CHAPTER XV.Reconciliation of the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert--Her scruples, etc.--The Prince at Brighton--Satirical prints--The Prince and the Pavilion--Increase of income--The Prince and...
28. CHAPTER VII.This year was exceedingly fateful to Prince Florizel, for, in it, he made the acquaintance of a lady whose connection with him influenced his whole life. This was Maria Anne Fit...
29. CHAPTER VIII.Early in 1786 matters financial came to a crisis with Florizel. Notwithstanding his income of nearly £70,000, he had managed in less than three years to get some £300,000 in deb...
37. CHAPTER XVI.In 1805 the Prince was much at Brighton, but we hear but little of him except in connection with Mrs. Fitzherbert's guardianship of Miss Mary Seymour, a child of whom the Prince...
32. CHAPTER XI.From the pencil of Rowlandson the caricaturist, who with his friend Wigstead, a Bow Street magistrate, went a trip to Brighton in 1789, we have an excellent picture of the Pavil...
23. CHAPTER II.There is nothing particularly noteworthy with regard to Brighthelmstone until we come to the embarkation of Charles II. in July, 1651, from that place for France, the culminatio...
30. CHAPTER IX.Fox's denial of the marriage--Once more at Brighton--Again in 1788--The Prince at a fatal prize-fight--His birthday--Dress at Brighton--The Prince leases his house at Brighton--...
33. CHAPTER XII.Another of the Prince's companions, until they quarrelled, was Charles Howard, eleventh Duke of Norfolk, who possessed all the habits and attributes of a hog.[64] Slovenly and d...
26. CHAPTER V.The Hon. George Hanger (afterwards the fourth and last Lord Coleraine) was at one time an especial friend of the Prince. He was educated at Eton and Göttingen, and was for some...
22. CHAPTER I.We who live in these latter days, when Brighton, the 'London-on-the-Sea,' has a standing population of 115,873,[1] and contains 19,543 houses, can hardly realize its small begin...
24. CHAPTER III.Brighton rapidly became fashionable, and we find the announcement on June 1, 1761, of Lord Abergavenny, Lord Bruce, Mr. and Lady Jane Evelyn, Lady Sophia Egerton, etc.; and on J...
25. CHAPTER IV.Who was this Mrs. Robinson? She was of Irish extraction, and was born in Bristol in 1758. In 1774 she married an attorney's clerk, named Robinson; and, owing to pecuniary diffic...
41. CHAPTER XX.'The CHINESE GALLERY which ranges immediately behind the Saloon and its communicating apartments, is 162 feet in length, and 17 feet wide. This space is partially separated into...
40. CHAPTER XIX.He left behind him a more abiding monument of his 'folly' than the building itself in a magnificent folio volume of etchings, plain and coloured, a task which he entrusted to Na...
31. CHAPTER X.The King being ordered to Weymouth, the Prince left, early in July, for Brighton. We do not hear much of him there, and more of what we read is pleasant. Fitzgerald[53] says: 'O...
43. CHAPTER XXII.Visit of William IV.--Alterations contemplated--Visit of the King and Queen--Story of the Duke of Cambridge--Alterations in the Pavilion--The Royal Family snowed up--Queen Victo...
21. CHAPTER XXII.Visit of William IV.--Alterations contemplated--Visit of the King and Queen--Story of the Duke of Cambridge--Alterations in the Pavilion--The Royal Family snowed up Queen Victor...
17. CHAPTER XVIII.The Regent and Admiral Nagle--A quiet time at the Pavilion--The Regent's extravagance--His yacht--Sham fight, and caricature thereon--A cruise to the French coast--Royal visitor...
14. CHAPTER XV.Reconciliation of the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert--Her scruples, etc.--The Prince at Brighton--Satirical prints--The Prince and the Pavilion--Increase of income--The Prince and...
8. CHAPTER IX.Fox's denial of the marriage--Once more at Brighton--Again in 1788--The Prince at a fatal prize-fight--His birthday--Dress at Brighton--The Prince leases his house at Brighton--...
16. CHAPTER XVII.Final rupture between the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert--That lady and William IV.--Her kindly relations with the Royal Family--Her death--The King's illness--The Regency--Visitor...
13. CHAPTER XIV.Another camp at Brighton--The Prince's second marriage--His debts--Parliamentary debate thereon--Prince and Princess at Brighton--'Moral Epistle from the Pavilion at Brighton to...
11. CHAPTER XII.3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.2. CHAPTER II.1. CHAPTER I.5. CHAPTER VI.9. CHAPTER X.12. CHAPTER XIII.7. CHAPTER VIII.15. CHAPTER XVI.18. CHAPTER XIX.10. CHAPTER XI.20. CHAPTER XXI.6. CHAPTER VII.19. CHAPTER XX.