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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay - Volum

Fanny Burney

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. . .ent at the trial, and he was a little lame from a fall. In the end I sent an express to Hammersmith, to desire Charles(262) to come to me the next morning by eight o'clock. I was very sorry not to have my father, as he had been named by the queen; but I was glad to have Charles.

I told her majesty at night the step I had ventured to take, and she was perfectly content with it. "But I must trouble you," she said, "with Miss Gomme, who has no other way to go."

This morning the queen dispensed with all attendance from me after her first dressing, that I might haste away. Mrs. Schwellenberg was fortunately well enough to take the whole duty, and the sweet queen not only hurried me off, but sent me some cakes from her own breakfast-table, that I might

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carry them, in my pocket, lest I should have no time for eating before I went.

Charles was not in time, but we all did well in. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This is an invaluable resource for the Georgian historian providing an eye-witness account of George III’s illness and recovery of 1788-9 as seen from Fanny Burney’s position as second keeper of the robes to Queen Charlotte. There is a particularly vivid account of how Fanny is chased by the King in