Excerpt from Autobiography of Miss. Cornelia Knight, Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Vol. 2 of 2
This consent came, and the article was prepared; but the Regent wished Princess Charlotte even then to waive it as a compliment to the House of Orange, but her Royal Highness persisted in claiming the article. Nearly a fortnight passed after everything appeared to be arranged, and her Royal Highness, seeing the Prince of Orange daily in presence of Miss Knight, often asked him what preparations were making with respect to a house, establish ment, (910. He always answered that nothing had been said to him, appeared to be ignorant, and did not then talk of taking a house himself.
While the Prince of Orange was at Oxford, a letter came from one of Princess Charlotte's aunts, who is very intimate with the Regent, to say that she understood he meant, as soon as the Emperor and King of Prussia were gone, to write over for the Oranges and have the marriage celebrated as soon as possible. This alarmed Princess Charlotte, and she said she resolved to enter into a clear ex planation with the young Prince to avoid disputes afterwards.
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