Word: prinney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prinney," as the Prince was called, had a spoiled passion for his secret wife, Maria Fitzherbert (once, when near death from nerves, hangovers and bloodletting, he wrote a soulful will in her favor), and a funning relationship with catty Lady Jersey. It amused Lady Jersey to put Epsom salts in Caroline's food during the royal honeymoon. After their separation, the Prince indulged his hatred of Caroline by keeping her from their child, Charlotte. Caroline proceeded to mother every unattached infant she could lay her hands on, adopting one "Willikins" who turned out half-witted. In fits of raffish...
...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...