“. . . The King and Queen were to have gone to the Opera to-night, but an account has arrived to-day of the death of Kennedy who married one of the Miss Fitzclarences, so they don’t go. Albemarle was to have dined there to-day, but the King said to him:—‘We have no dinner to-day, and don’t go to the opera, because that is pleasure; but we shall go on with the levee to-morrow, because that is duty.’ A very pretty distinction, I think, for a King to make.”
