The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 22 August 1820
“Brooks’s, 22nd Aug., ½ past 4.
“. . . Upon the whole, I hope things are looking
better for us to-day. The people in the streets were numerous, but not so much
so as formerly, nor was their quality so good. Yesterday’s evidence had
certainly shook her friends—always excepting Lady Gwydyr* and her family at their house at Whitehall. I
stood on Lord Melbourne’s steps to
see the Queen pass, and the
Dowr. Gwydyr (alias Eresby) with all
* The Dowager Lady
Gwydyr was Lady Willoughby
d’Eresby and joint Great Chamberlain in her own
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her family black as sloes, with weepers, windows open,
&c., all bowed at once again and again, with an awe and devotion as if they
had been good Catholicks and the Queen the Virgin Mary. .
. .”
Queen Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821)
Married the Prince of Wales in 1795 and separated in 1796; her husband instituted
unsuccessful divorce proceedings in 1820 when she refused to surrender her rights as
queen.
William Lamb, second viscount Melbourne (1779-1848)
English statesman, the son of Lady Melbourne (possibly by the third earl of Egremont) and
husband of Lady Caroline Lamb; he was a Whig MP, prime minister (1834-41), and counsellor
to Queen Victoria.
