That dreary journey, undertaken, I think, on the 26th of January, in bitter cold and damp weather, I shall not easily forget.

I looked very sharp after the poor little baby, then about eight months old.

Arrived in London we were very unkindly treated by George IV., _whose great wish was to get you and your Mamma out of the country_, and I must say without my assistance you could _not_ have remained....

I state these facts, because it is useful to remember through what _difficulties_ and _hardships_ one had to struggle.

You will also remember that though there existed the _possibility_ of your eventually succeeding to the Crown, that possibility was very doubtful, the then Duchess of Clarence having been confined after your Mother, and there being every reason to think that, though poor little Princess Elizabeth did not live more than some months, other children might appear.[2] It was a long time from 1820 to 1837! We got over it, however, and, as far as you are concerned, God be praised! safely and happily.