The Creevey Papers
Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [June? 1816?]
“Temple [no date, 1816?]
“The opinion is prevalent that the fête after all won’t hold; at any rate that P.* won’t venture. His loyal subjects are
sure to attack him, and the burning of the temporary room, with the whole
fashionable world, may be the consequence. Indeed a small expense, laid out in
one squib, would bring about this catastrophe, so they will probably take
fright. . . . I dined on Saturday at Dick
Wilson’s, who was pleased to give the Pss. of W.’s health immediately after the
King’s (the D. of Sussex being there),
and he
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then, with his accustomed
patriotism, gave ‘The Rights of the People.’ . . . Young Frog* was t’other day made
remarkably drunk by a savage animal of the name of
Wirtemburg (son of the pickled sister, your friend),
and in this predicament shewn up to young
P.† among others. The savage took the opportunity of
making love on his own score, and has been forbid C[arlton] House in
consequence.”
Queen Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821)
Married the Prince of Wales in 1795 and separated in 1796; her husband instituted
unsuccessful divorce proceedings in 1820 when she refused to surrender her rights as
queen.
Princess Charlotte Augusta (1796-1817)
The only child of George IV; she married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in 1816 and died
in childbirth the following year.
William II, king of the Netherlands (1792-1849)
Educated at Oxford, he was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington (1811), was briefly
engaged to Princess Charlotte, and succeeded his father in 1840.
Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1777-1849)
Soldier, author, radical Whig MP for Southwark (1818-31), and diplomat; he wrote
History of the British Expedition to Egypt (1802) and was governor
of Gibraltar (1842).
