Note 185 — Chapter VII
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The Princess Royal was so proud and ambitious, that one day, when very young, telling the Queen how much she wished that she had no brothers, that she herself might succeed to the Crown, and the Queen reproving her, she said, “I would die to-morrow to be Queen to-day!” On the Queen’s death, the Princess Royal, like others, imagining the King must be governed by a woman, pretended ill-health, and that her physicians had ordered her to Bath, and came over; but having been so indiscreet as to let her motive be known, the King would not sutler her to stop in London, but sent her directly to Bath, and, on her return, back to Holland; nor ever forgave her.