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Papendiek herself succeeded to the post once 

 held by the novelist, for which she was much 

 fitter, to judge by the space given to dress in her 

 journals. But these records end before she 

 entered upon her duties ; and we know little 

 more of her Court life but that she gained pro- 

 motion in the royal household, from which she 

 retired to spend her old age at Kew. 



In 1805, another literary lady came into 

 the service of Queen Charlotte, Miss Cornelia 

 Knight, afterwards companion to the Prince 

 Regent's daughter. Her journals are much more 

 discreet about the royal family than Miss 

 Burney's ; and there is a hiatus in them for most 

 of the period of her living at Windsor, where she 

 gives little more than hints of dissensions and 

 grudges in the highest circles, and a general 

 impression that Kew had fallen out of its old 

 favour. All these three writers had a common 

 point, in being able to boast of Dr. Johnson's 

 acquaintance, most intimate in the case of Miss 

 Burney. 



Thorne, in his Environs of London, as also the 

 official guide, have it that the King was confined, 

 during his first illness, in the present palace, 

 apart from his family ; and this statement is 



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