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THE QUEEN'S CONFESSIONS

HUISH, Robert. MEMOIRS OF CAROLINE, QUEEN CONSORT OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF HER EVENTFUL LIFE; THE TRIAL OF THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. 1820; MEMOIRS OF GEORGE THE FOURTH; MEMOIRS OF HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA, PRINCESS OF WALES &C. (FROM INFANCY TO HER MUCH LAMENTED DEATH, FUNERAL RITES, &C., &C.) AND OF HER ILLUSTRIOUS CONSORT PRINCE LEOPOLD OF SAXE-COBURG SAALFELD; INCLUDING A VARIETY OF ANECDOTES, HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED, WITH SPECIMENS OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS' COMPOSITIONS IN PROSE, POETRY AND MUSIC, AND FAC-SIMILES OF HER HANDWRITING; COMPRISING ALSO AN HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE HOUSE OF SAXE-COBURG SAALFELD. 7 VOLUMES IN ALL. London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1818-1831. 8vo., half green leather stamped in gilt with raised bands, gilt spine ornaments, rules and edges; over green and gilt marbled paper covered boards. Leather in very good condition, clean and bright, lovely set. Interiors fine. MEMOIRS OF QUEEN CAROLINE: 2 volumes, viii + 696 pp/viii + 866 pp. + [2] pp. 1820-1821. TRIAL OF THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND [CAROLINE]: 2 volumes, xviii + [1] + 664 pp./719 pp., 1821. MEMOIRS OF GEORGE THE FOURTH, 2 volumes, 572 pp./427 pp + [1], 1831. MEMOIRS OF CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA, 1 volume (complete), xv + 696 pp. + 136 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's catalogue. Charlotte Augusta was the daughter of the arranged marriage between George IV and Caroline. In 1820, George III died, and the absent, scandalous Caroline returned from Europe. The trial was for a bill of Divorce, based on her alleged affair with her Italian companion Pergami; the bill was voted down. At the coronation ceremony, Caroline was denied access at every gate, supposedly because she had no ticket. Charlotte Augusta, estranged from her mother, married Leopold and died after delivering a stillborn child. $700.00 #81002