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and gave the princes good advice : " They must 

 be brave boys, obedient to their mother, and 

 deserve the fortune to which they were born." 

 Horace Walpole remarks in his malicious way 

 that the King, who had never acted the tender 

 father, grew so pleased with playing the part of 

 grandfather that he soon became it in earnest. 

 For the moment, natural good-feeling reigned in 

 the families that had been such bad neighbours. 

 The Opposition was crushed by the death of its 

 patron, the Prince ; and the discordant place- 

 hunters of the day let themselves be tuned to 

 a comparative harmony of interest under the 

 Pelham brothers, who now had all their own 

 way. Later on there sprang up fresh clouds 

 between Kew and Kensington, the respective 

 horizons of the rising and of the setting sun. 

 For a little, Prince George appears to have lived 

 with his grandfather at Hampton Court; but 

 they did not take to each other, and the boy 

 went back under his mother's wing. 



The first care of the King and the Ministry 

 was to appoint instructors for the young Princes, 

 an important choice in the case of the Heir to 

 the Crown. The Governor appointed was Lord 

 Harcourt, who "wanted a governor himself," 



