A Royal Experiment Quotes

“In a world with fewer diversions, the arrival of a letter was an event to be shared and celebrated or enjoyed as a private pleasure. In most households, there simply could not be too many of them. Even by these formidable”
― Janice Hadlow, A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

“I begin now to have my feelings under perfect control. Adversity has taught me that necessary lesson.”
― Janice Hadlow, A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

“Charlotte knew only too well from her own life, the best insurance against boredom came from within. ‘The young people must also learn how to amuse themselves, for on nothing so depends the happiness of others than knowing how to use their time.”
― Janice Hadlow, A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

“We are always on the move’, ‘We are often in three places in a week.’ In such circumstances, it was impossible to have any kind of rational, regular life. Charlotte did not even know where her favourite books were, a major source of annoyance for such a tireless reader. ‘Indeed, sometimes I think I have no books at all, for they are at Kew, or they are in town, or they are here; and I don’t know which is which.’ 40 The feeling of being ‘everywhere and nowhere’ became her dominant experience, leaving her with a profound sense of endless dislocation.”
― Janice Hadlow, A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

“As a very small child, she had caught the eye of George II. He had invited her to the palace where she would watch the king at his favourite pastime, ‘counting his money which he used to receive regularly every morning’.”
― Janice Hadlow, A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

“Bishop Hayter may have been ‘a mighty learned man’, but he did not seem to Augusta ‘to be very proper to convey knowledge to children; he had not the clearness she thought necessary … his thoughts seemed to be too many for his words’.”
― Janice Hadlow, A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III