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MS-B.772.026
3 Apr 1772:174 (2/57)
London. . . January 18. We are assured, that a very
humiliating circumstance has lately occurred at court. On
the Lord Chamberlain's officially announcing the ensuing
commemoration of the Queen's birth-day, and that the
Peeresses who intended to dance minuets were desired to send
their names in writing to his office, in order that the
proper tickets may be made out according to their rank, the
Duchess of Cumberland declared her intention of writing to
the Lord Chamberlain, that she proposed to dance a minuet at
court on that [ ] declaration got wind--the King's
friends were alarmed at the consequence--precedence of all
the peeresses, or a public interdiction from court, must
have followed --The former was too mortifying, and the
latter too imprudent---no middle way could be hit upon; and
at last the most submissive, abject intercession was obliged
to be made, that "Her Royal Highness" would "for the
present" wave her intentions; and the humiliating
application concluded with a distant hint, that the
concession might possibly be the means of facilitating that
restoration to Royal favour, which the Duke of Cumberland
was so very anxious of attaining.
We are assured that the Duchess of Cumberland is
pregnant; and that her Royal Highness's situation has been
notified in form.
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