Note 94 — Chapter X
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George III.’s repugnance to the King of Denmark’s visit is shown in the following note which he wrote to Lord Weymouth before he came: “As to-morrow is the day you receive foreign ministers, you will acquaint M. de Dieden (the Danish minister) that I desire he will assure the King, his master, that I am desirous of making his stay in this country as agreeable as possible. That I therefore wish to be thoroughly apprized of the mode in which he chooses to be treated, that I may exactly conform to it. This will throw whatever may displease the King of Denmark, during his stay here, on his shoulders, and consequently free me from that désagrément; but you know very well that the whole of it is very disagreeable to me.” [Richmond Lodge, June 8, 1768.]