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desire, " for a particular reason," in Old Windsor 

 Churchyard, where her tomb may be seen fenced 

 in with spiked railings to defend it from the 

 body-snatchers that infested those river -side 

 graveyards ; and on it may be read an oft- 

 quoted epitaph idealising the painful facts of 

 her career. 



At Richmond lived Mrs. Fitzherbert, the 

 Prince of Wales's more lasting flame, to whom 

 he appears to have been honestly, if illegally, 

 married. When this Prince was launched upon 

 the wicked world, and the Bishop in partibus 

 had been sent off to finish his education abroad, 

 the royal pair still had their quiver full of 

 youngsters, who for twenty years came so fast 

 as to be cue for Horace Walpole's jesting 

 prophecy that " London will be like the senate 

 of old Rome, an assembly of princes." Besides 

 others who died young, there were the princes 

 afterwards known as Dukes of Clarence, Kent, 

 Cumberland, Sussex, and Cambridge, and the 

 Princesses Charlotte, Augusta, Mary, Elizabeth, 

 Sophia, and little Amelia, the darling of her 

 father. Where all these children were stowed 

 away, one cannot always make out clearly : we 

 hear of the Princes William and Edward living 



