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most heartily wish he was out of it" Yet, when 

 father and son were not on speaking terms, all 

 the family lived together at St James's, till, after 

 the birth of the Prince's first child, he was turned 

 out at short notice to take refuge at Kew, and 

 at makeshift London residences which became in 

 turn the head-quarters of the Opposition. One 

 would suppose that in the country those cat-and- 

 dog neighbours might have chosen to have at 

 least a river between them ; but at Kew they 

 were separated only by a road. 



Kew House, then, began to figure in history 

 as the country-seat of the Prince of Wales. 

 Frederick was by no means a model husband 

 nor a princely man ; but he had affection and 

 respect for his wife, the Princess Augusta of 

 S axe- Got ha, and they at least lived decently 

 together. Here were in part brought up their 

 children : George III. ; Edward, Duke of York, 

 who died abroad in 1767 ; William Henry, Duke 

 of Gloucester, who lived to 1805 ; Henry, Duke of 

 Cumberland, who, as well as the last-mentioned, 

 came into disfavour through a mesalliance; Prince 

 Frederick and Princess Louisa, who both died 

 young ; and Caroline Matilda, who married the 

 worthless King of Denmark, and had a miserable 



