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A FORGOTTEN PRINCE OF WALES.
National Portrait Gallery. Emery Walker.
FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES, AND HIS SISTERS AT KEW.
A FORGOTTEN
PRINCE OF WALES
BY
CAPTAIN HENRY CURTIES
Author of “When England Slept,”etc., etc.
LONDON
EVERETT & CO., LTD.
42 ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.
Dedicated by permission
to
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.G.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Which Seizes upon the Prince as he comes into the World | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Falling in of a Great Legacy | 12 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Prince at the Age of Nine | 18 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| In which England gets a new King and Queen | 25 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| A Double Event which did not come off | 41 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The Prince and the London of 1728 | 50 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Peter Wentworth’s Letters on the Prince’s Life | 60 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Prince’s Embarrassments | 73 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The Duchess of Marlborough Throws for a Big Stake | 83 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The Beautiful Vanilla | 92 |