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160 MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT.
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• without any particular employment , but that I should be lodged at Windsor in a house belonging to her Majesty , and with a maid in
her service to do the work of the house . Her Majesty added that she would allow me three hundred pounds a year , and that I should
_Tbe present at her evening parties when invited , and always on Sundays and red letter days—and be ready to attend upon her in
the mornings when required to do so ; but that I should have leave to visit my friends , particularly when their Majesties were at
Weymouth , where my services would not be wanted . ' This proposal I . accepted gratefully , and the-more so that it was quite unsolicited
on my part . " In June , Miss Knight received her first summons to _Windsor
and stayed there a fortnight , and in December she became a resident . _" The unmarried princesses who were still at home were very kind
and gracious to me . It is difficult to form an idea of a more domestic family in any rank of life , or a house in which the visitors
—for those on duty were considered as such—were treated with greater attention . The queen used often to call for me between
ten and eleven on her way to Frogmore , where she liked to spend her mornings . She was fond of reading aloud , either in French or
English , and I had my work . Her library there was well furnished with books in those languagesand in German , and she was so
, good as to give me a key , with permission to take home any that I liked . Sometimes we walked in the gardens of that pleasant place ,
Princess Elizabeth , being usually of our party , and not unfrequently Princess Mary . The Princesses Augusta and Sophia rode with the
king . The Princess Elizabeth had a pretty cottage and garden at Old Windsor , where she would sometimes in summer give little
fitesr At this point there is a blank in the autobiography , and the
entries later are devoid of interest until the end of May , 1810 , which , she observes" was a very melancholy one at Windsor . ' / The
attempt to assassinate , the Duke of Cumberland caused a great disquietude . ( He was murdered in bed in the dark by an assassin
supposed at the time to be his valet , Sellis , found immediately after with his throat cut . ) Then followed the illness and death of the
Princess Amelia . " Day by day she sank more and more under her great sufferings . Though pale and emaciated , she still retained
her beauty . She wished to live , but was thoroughly resigned when she found there was no hope of her remaining long upon
earth . " She died on the birthday of her brother the Duke of Kent ; and it showed her sweetness of nature , that she ordered a
bird , given to her by the Princess Augusta , to be returned to her , but not on the day of her death , nor the day after , lest it should
afflict _heiT jsjster too much in the first hours of her grief . She was particularly fond of music , but latterly could not
the bear reason the . sound the bird of a , which pianoforte sang even very sweetl another y , had room Ibeen , whi given ch w to as
160 Miss Cornelia Knight.
160 MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/16/
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