The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 10 November 1824
“Croxteth, Nov. 10, 1824.
“. . . I left FitzClarence at Gosforth and continue to like him as well as
ever. Ly. Sefton says he is out and out the
best of the family. . . . Tho’ shy, he is not without the ingenuousness
of the family. He said the King was getting
very old and cross—that the Duchess of
Clarence was the best and most charming woman in the
world—that Prince Leopold was a
damned humbug, and that he [FitzClarence] disliked the
Duchess of Kent.”
Queen Adelaide (1792-1849)
The daughter of George Frederick Charles, duke of Saxe-Meiningen and consort of William
IV, whom she married in 1818.
Leopold I King of Belgium (1790-1865)
The son of Prince Francis Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; after serving in the Russian
army he married Princess Charlotte in May 1816; in 1831 he was inaugurated as the first
king of the Belgians.
Victoria Mary Louise, duchess of Kent (1786-1861)
The daughter of Francis, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, in 1803 she married Emich Charles,
prince of Leiningen, and in 1818 the Duke of Kent. She was the mother of Queen
Victoria
