Only Lord Dorrington had seen and approved the Prince of Wales’s purchases as a good investment.
“I doubt if you will ever get the credit for it, Sire,” he said one day, “but posterity will benefit and certainly your Royal successors.”
“It would be more to the point if I could have a little appreciation and a little money now,” the Prince of Wales had replied sarcastically.
Then with a quick change of mood he told Lord Dorrington of a locket he was having made for Mrs. Fitzherbert containing a miniature of one of his eyes painted by Cosway.
When finally Lord Dorrington left Carlton House, he decided that it was too late for him to go on anywhere else.
He felt no inclination to join the Prince of Wales’s other guests at the White House or any of the other notorious brothels that catere
