Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reigns of the Stuarts: Including ... 2
Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reigns of the Stuarts: Including ... 2
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815-1874
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The party, which was now increased to five, arrived safely at Boulogne, whence they rode post to Paris. On their way they fell in with two German gentlemen, who had recently seen the prince at Newmarket, and who fancied they re- membered his person. The improbability, how- ever, of their being right in their conjectures, and the apparent astonishment and cool denial of Sir Richard Graham, when they hinted to him their suspicion, had the eflfect of convincing them they were mistaken. At Paris, w...here the travellers remained a whole day, the prince and Buckingham, in order still more effectually to disguise their features, provided Il6 THE COURT OF ENGLAND. themselves with periwigs. Trusting to this fur- ther disfigurement, they contrived, through French politeness, and the fact of their being strangers, to obtain a sight of the queen-mother at dinner. The same evening they were spectators of a masked ball at court, where all the beauty of Paris was present, and at which Charles first be- held the princess, whom he afterward married, and Buckingham that young and light-hearted queen, whom at a later period he dared to address as a lover.
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