CHAPTER SIXThe Prince Regent in his Field Marshal’s full-dress and wearing his English, Russian, Prussian and French Orders looked extremely impressive.
There was nothing he enjoyed more than the congenial task of arranging a fête at Carlton House and this one, which he intended as a personal tribute to the Duke of Wellington, was very dear to his heart.
The first act of his ‘unrestricted Regency’ had been to sign the Warrant for a pension for the hero of Waterloo and it was with the Duke in mind that the Prince Regent had designed the whole fête.
A special polygonal building had been put up in the garden. It was a solid structure, one hundred and twenty feet in diameter, built of brick and with a leaded roof, but the interior was designed to give the impression of summer light, airines
