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

LATER RESIDENTS 229
representation)toher RoyalHighness PrincessFrederica,
daughter of the late King of Hanover, her Majesty's
cousin, and sister of the Duke of Cumberland. Her
Royal Highness still resides in these apartments with
her husband, Baron von Pawel Rammingen.
During the century and a quarter which have passed
since George III. finally removed the royal furniture,
and gave up the state rooms, the Palace has held many
hundreds of distinguished inhabitants. Talbots and
Walpoles, Berkeleys, Greys, Wellesleys, Burgoynes,
and Gordons, — the record is one that reads like the
index to a history of England. It were invidious to
particularise among so distinguished a list. Happily
the tone of contempt with which the dwellers in the
private apartments were spoken of by some of the
sovereigns, and by many of the Radical newspapers,
may now be considered a thing of the past. The
recognition of public service could take no form more
graceful, or more in accordance with the best popular
feeling, than in assigning to the widows or kindred of
distinguished public servants a share in the life of a
great historic palace.
The association of the later history of the Palace
with two ladies whose name has a very special interest
cannot be forgotten. In 1795 Countess of
Mornington (Anne, daughter of the first Lord Dungannon,
who had married Garret Wesley, Lord
Mornington, musician and politician, in the year in
which he was raised to an earldom), received rooms
in the Palace. A keen-eyed and stately old lady,