tiny-librarian:On 30 April 1816 the Prince Regent, the future George IV, sent to ‘Miss Coats’ a se
tiny-librarian: On 30 April 1816 the Prince Regent, the future George IV, sent to ‘Miss Coats’ a set of peridots to wear at the marriage of his daughter, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. ‘Miss Coats’ was either Charlotte or Lucy Cotes, two of the ladies in Princess Charlotte’s household who had been entrusted by the Prince Regent with keeping a close eye on the princess between 1814 and 1816. Princess Charlotte sometimes resented their presence, describing the gaunt Dowager Countess of Rosslyn and her nieces, the Cotes sisters, as ‘Famine & the consequences’. Only eighteen months later Charlotte Cotes took part in the funeral procession for Princess Charlotte whose death in childbirth aroused a nationwide expression of grief. Henry Brougham, the statesman, wrote: ‘it really was as though every household throughout Great Britain had lost a favourite child’. The set of gold and peridot jewels are composed of a necklace with pendent cross, two bracelets, two earrings and brooch. They are contained in a red leather case and have survived with a letter from Princess Elizabeth, George IV’s younger sister: ‘My dear Miss Coats/ I write in great haste by com/ mand of The P. Regent to beg/ you to accept the set of Chry/ solytes which I send with/ this note He hopes You will/ wear it at the Wedding as/ a proof of his regard. – I/ fear I have not said half/ enough to Your Sister but/ they are all talking so/ hard I scarcely know what/ I am saying Yrs sin[cere]ly/ Eliza April 30th/ 1816 Source -- source link
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