stationed. The weather was magnificent, a circumstance which contributed
to show off the admirable arrangements of Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, to
whom had been deputed the organization of the fete, which commenced
by dancing on the lawn.

The Princess Charlotte honoured with her presence two dances. In the
first she accepted the hand of the late Duke of Devonshire, and in the
second that of the Earl of Aboyne, who had danced with Marie Antoinette,
and who, as Lord Huntley, lived long enough to dance with Queen Victoria.
The Princess entered so much into the spirit of the fete as to ask for
the then fashionable Scotch dances. The Prince was dressed in the Windsor
uniform, and wore the garter and star. He made himself very amiable,
and conversed much with the Ladies Hertford, Cholmondeley, and Montford.
Altogether, the fete was a memorable event.

A year afterwards, the Duke of York said to his royal niece, "Tell me,
my dear, have you seen anyone among the foreign princes whom you would
like to have for a husband?" The Princess naively replied, "No one
so much prepossesses me as Prince Leopold of Coburg. I have heard much
of his bravery in the field, and I must say he is personally agreeable
to me. I have particularly heard of his famous cavalry charge at the
battle of Leipsic, where he took several thousand prisoners, for which
he was rewarded with the Order of Maria Therese." In a few months afterwards
she became the wife of the man whom she so much admired, and from whom
she was torn away not long after by the cruel hand of death. It will
be remembered that she died in childbirth, and her offspring expired
at the same time. The accoucheur who attended her was so much affected
by the calamity, that he committed suicide some short time afterwards.