Word: prinney
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...Prinney," as fashionable friends like Beau Brummell knew him, had simply no choice but to marry. It was either marriage to a suitable princess by order of his father George III, or something very like debtors' prison. With his elegantly tailored back to the wall, Prinney picked Caroline of Brunswick, his father's niece, sight unseen. He believed her to be the lesser of two evils-the other being any one of his mother's relatives whom he had seen. The Prince's first glance at the buxom Princess revealed his mistake...
...Prinney spent his wedding night dead drunk and ended up on the edge of the fireplace, where his bride let him sleep it off undisturbed. After the birth of their child and heir, Princess Charlotte, nine months later, the future King of England sent Caroline formal notification that he would require no further wifely duties...
...King George III (of Revolutionary War fame) was already showing such symptoms of future dottiness as screaming, "View Halloo!" at morning prayers and greeting oak trees as old friends in Windsor Park. Queen Charlotte and her eldest son were already jockeying for power as Regent. Prinney threaded a delicate path between the beckonings of his secret wife and his demanding and increasingly shrewish mistress. Caroline publicly boasted of her taste in "bedfellows," and soon turned up with an "adopted" son called "Willikins" who was widely said to be her own. "Prove it and he shall be your King!" she would...
...English did not know what to do with the Prince, they knew still less what to do with the Princess, whose high spirits, admired by Lord Byron, became hoydenish and pathetic with middle age. Prinney tried and failed to trump up enough scandal about Caroline to get a divorce. Caroline sailed off to Italy and behaved outrageously but always just within the law. When Prinney became King in 1820 he had her name struck from the Prayer Book. She returned to London to fight...
...crowd. Broken in spirit, perhaps understanding at last what a clown she had appeared for years, she failed rapidly. When news of Napoleon's death on St. Helena reached England, a satellite informed the King: "Sir, your greatest enemy is dead!" "Is she, by God?" cried Prinney, slapping his thigh...