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L30/11/323/118
Title
Letter from Agneta Yorke to the Countess de Grey, sent from Bath. [Typed transcript available]
Date free text
6 Nov 1817
Production date
From: 1817 To: 1817
Scope and Content
The Queen arrived safe and well [Queen Charlotte, wife of George III]. The crowds were immense and the illuminations magnificent. The Duke of Clarence [William Henry, Duke of Clarence, third son of George III, later William IV] preceeded her majesty by about an hour. The following morning the Queen, Duke and Princess Elizabeth drove all over the city. 'The Corporation...are to carry up their address today and they are also to give a dinner and the freedom of the city..... to the Duke of Clarence. The Queen visited the pump room; the crowd is kept off by railing. The writer has not glimpsed the Queen 'I am now such an invalid from age and infirmities that I am quite unable to appear in her majesties presence.' Anxious to know about the poor princess; the newsapapers announced that she was in labour on Tuesday morning, and yet there is no news of her delivery. The writer fears she must be very ill, or hopes the report was untrue. [this letter was written on the day that Princess Charlotte died]. General family news.
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