MEMOIRS

OF

HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

Sophia-Charlotte,

QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUments.

BY

JOHN WATKINS, LL.D.

AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF SHERIDAN,
&c. &c.

EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.

(Entered at Stationers' Hall.)

Br2060,137

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

MARY E. HAVEN
JULY 2, 1914.

2)

B. CLARKE, Printer, Well Street, London.

SENTIMENTS OF PROFOUND RESPECT,

AND

A SACRED REVERENCE

FOR

SORROW OCCASIONED BY AN IRREPARABLE LOSS,

IN WHICH

ALL HEARTS MUST PARTICIPATE,

THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO SKETCH

A CHARACTER,

THAT,

BY THE SPECIAL BLESSING OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE

UPON THESE REALMS,

HAS SHONE, WITH A LUSTRE UNPARALLELED,

FOR NEAR SIXTY YEARS,

AN UNIFORM EXAMPLE

OF ALL THE VIRTUES THAT COULD ADORN

THE WIFE, THE MOTHER, AND THE

QUEEN,

IS MOST HUMBLY AND DUTIFULLY INSCRIBED

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE

PRINCE REGENT.