Drawing room presentations - a Regency History guide

A drawing room at St James's Palace from
The Microcosm of London by R Ackermann and W Combe (1808-10)In A Reason for Romance, Georgiana Merry and her sister Eliza are presented to the Queen by their grandmother, the Duchess of Wessex, on entering London society:

Just after two o’clock, the centre door was thrown open and Her Majesty Queen Charlotte entered, followed by the princesses and a whole bevy of servants. Although the Queen looked magnificent in dark green velvet and gold embroidery, Cast...