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MISS CORNELIA--KNIGHT.
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comfort it had been . he he ld In was sacred this lost year — to he his also was famil the y still king and ' beloved s to malad his subjects y and broke respected , out but . his " . From name Among this was time still the
aberrations of his mind there was one which _, must greatly have contributed to his comfort . He fancied that Princess Amelia was older
no and t dead always , but be living well . at H He anover endeavored , where to she impart would the never same grow consolathe loss of his
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with , Amelia . " After remaining attached to the royal household at Windsor for
ments about seven which years were , M being iss Kni made ght was for included the household " in some of new the arrange Princess - Court of the
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attendance adjoining the on the residence , princess of , until her Jul father y , 1814 . " . Here Previou she s soj , however ourned , , in to
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certain moment , hour alone The with Princess her mother of " , Wales nor p made rolon Miss g their Kni stay ht sit beyond on the a g
her sofa dut by her to . side the , and was with very her gracious thanks , and for . desired having her allowed to " g her ive queen
such daughter circumstances y to come that the , " day duty . " " One would can not well be very imag sincere ine that , nor under the
" thanks When " the very Princess tender . Charlotte was nearly seventeen , she set her with ladiesin
heart and wrote on having accordin an g establishment ly to Lord Liverpool of her . her own It old , was and supposed intimate - she -waiting friend did so ,
b with y advice whom of she Miss as Mercer not at El that phinstone time , allowed any communication ; , , _y _, and it was further supposed that this communication he heard was of managed it
by violentl the y Princess angry , and of Wales broug . ht Lord The Eldon prince , to when bear upon that his the daug law , hter was of ,
Eng who land , in a did very not roug allow h manner what she , exp demanded lained to ; her and " on the prince
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Miss Cornelia--Knight.
MISS CORNELIA--KNIGHT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/17/
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