Shortly afterwards Mrs.Jordan died in distressed circumstances in Paris.

The Duke of Cumberland was probably the most unpopular man in England.

Hideously ugly, with a distorted eye, he was bad-tempered and vindictive in private, a violent reactionary in politics, and was subsequently suspected of murdering his valet and of having carried on an amorous intrigue of an extremely scandalous kind.

He had lately married a German Princess, but there were as yet no children by the marriage.

The Duke of Sussex had mildly literary tastes and collected books.