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Collection	George III Private Papers
Reference	GEO/MAIN/16200-16203
Record Type	Correspondence
Title	Accounts of births of George III's children, August 1762 and September 1763
Date	[?1837-1841]
Writer	[?Lehzen, Louise, Baroness]
Writer	[?Victoria, Queen of Great Britain]
Description	Account of the the Queen giving birth to a Prince in August 1762 (the Prince of Wales), and the attendance of the Princess Dowager of Wales, members of the Privy Council and Ladies of the Queen's Bedchamber; The firing of the Tower guns to announce the birth; The Archbishop of Canterbury and the bills of mortality; the reading of a poem; description of the birth, including the woman and doctor in attendance; the sending of orders creating the Prince of Great Britain; plans concerning the christening; Tte godparents Account of the the Queen giving birth to a Prince in September 1763 (Prince Frederick) at St James's on 14 September; his christening; The 'sponsors' Note in what appears to be Queen Victoria's handwriting which reads that HRH was invested with the order of the garter in 1771 at the age of eight Copied from the Annual Register
Language	English
Extent	1 document (8 pages)
Physical Description	Loose manuscript paper; mounted
Access Conditions	Available in surrogate form only
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