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Rh representation) to her Royal Highness Princess Frederica, daughter of the late King of Hanover, her Majesty's cousin, and sister of the Duke of Cumberland. Her Royal Highness still resides in these apartments with her husband, Baron von Pawel Rammingen.

During the century and a quarter which have passed since George III. finally removed the royal furniture, and gave up the state rooms, the Palace has held many hundreds of distinguished inhabitants. Talbots and Walpoles, Berkeleys, Greys, Wellesleys, Burgoynes, and Gordons,—the record is one that reads like the index to a history of England. It were invidious to particularise among so distinguished a list. Happily the tone of contempt with which the dwellers in the private apartments were spoken of by some of the sovereigns, and by many of the Radical newspapers, may now be considered a thing of the past. The recognition of public service could take no form more graceful, or more in accordance with the best popular feeling, than in assigning to the widows or kindred of distinguished public servants a share in the life of a great historic palace.

The association of the later history of the Palace with two ladies whose name has a very special interest cannot be forgotten. In 1795 Countess of Mornington (Anne, daughter of the first Lord Dungannon, who had married Garret Wesley, Lord Mornington, musician and politician, in the year in which he was raised to an earldom), received rooms in the Palace. A keen-eyed and stately old lady,