Hanoverian At Home
THOROUGHLY enjoyed last Monday’s talk in Mary Wigley’s series Friends of Famous Queens. The talk was equally divided between the home life of George III and Queen Charlotte and Fanny Burney’s reactions to
it. Both were interesting. To one accustomed to think of George Ill merely in his public role of the Personification of the Obstinate Negative, the glimpses of him as Domestic Paragon vouchsafed us by Miss Wigley
wete illuminating-his devotion to the Queen, his absorption (perhaps to. the ultimate benefit of the American colonists) in the affairs and interests of his 15 children. Queen Charlotte was fevealed as a domestic jewel in incongruous platinum setting. And after hearing the extracts from Fanny Burney’s diary relevant to her stay at Court read us by Miss Wigley I have no difficulty in understanding why she resigned her position as Queen Charlotte’s confidential attendant to rush straight (after a decent year’s interval) iAto the arms of the gallant General D’Arblay.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 404, 21 March 1947, Page 12
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162Hanoverian At Home New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 404, 21 March 1947, Page 12
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