“. . . My little friend, the youngest Copley,§ can never resist touching up John George [Lambton] for
* “Blomfield tells me that the King intends to wear mourning at his private levee, and crape round his arm for the rest of the time. It was not easy, I learn, to persuade him to this” [The Croker Papers, i. 201]. Mr. Croker was present with the King in Dublin. † Sir W. W. Wynn, 4th baronet of Wynnstay. ‡ “The King went minutely through the Museum and other parts of the interior. Whether this tired him or that he was too impatient to get to Slane, I cannot tell—perhaps both; but he did not appear on the lawn for above four minutes. . . . Great disappointment, and some criticism, which five minutes more would have prevented” [The Croker Papers, i. 206]. § Afterwards married to 3rd Earl Grey. |
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