Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

GEORGE I 111
Queen continued her kindness to the nurse and her
family, she could never forget the anxious days when
her baby hung between life and death.
XII
With George I. the court returned to Hampton,
and made from time to time long sojourns there.
At some periods the King, with the atrocious Schulenberg,
Duchess of Kendal, and Kilmansegge, Countess
of Darlington; at others the Prince of Wales and
his clever wife, Caroline of Anspach, held possession.
The greatest confusion seems to have reigned during
this period. Not only were the King and Prince at
daggers-drawn — and George called his daughter-in-law,
" cette diablesse la Princesse "— till a reconciliation,
hollow enough, was patched up in 1720, when "the
officers of the two courts kissed, embraced, and congratulated
one another," but the arrangement of
the Palace was in hopeless disorder. Anybody who
had the impudence to enter might, it would seem,
be lodged in the Palace: the officials practically let
apartments; and the Crown had to issue a proclamation,
to which nobody paid any attention.
George I. amused himself from time to time by
having plays acted in the great hall. In 1718,
Hamlet and Henry VIII. were acted there, and
the King listened with delight to allusions which
seemed to fit his own ministers. But the interest