How I wish he would stay still! thought the Queen. This excitement is bad for him.‘Although I am receiving him,’ the King was saying, ‘I shall expect deference from him. He’ll have to drop that arrogance, eh? He may be a little king in Carlton House but I’m the King here at Windsor.’‘He’ll remember that,’ said the Queen. ‘I’m sure he has learned his lesson.’‘What’s that, eh, what? His lesson? Do you think he’ll ever learn? But we’ll show him that if he’s going to be received back into the family he has to deserve it, eh, what?’It was not the right attitude perhaps, thought the Queen. Oh dear, she did hope this was going to be an end to these family quarrels.‘Mr Pitt seems to think that it is a bad thing that there should be enmity in the family.’The King frowned at her. Charlotte should know by now that he never talked State matters with her. She was not supposed to mention the name of Mr Pitt. But there was gossip, of course. There was chatter. He was talking to her about the return of the Prince of Wales to the heart of the family simply because it was a domestic matter and these were the only matters he discussed with her.‘I think it’s a good thing that there should be no enmity in the family.
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