[Rarebooks] FS: 1810 Royal Funeral Floor Plan

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

1810 Sketch of the ‘Arrangement of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, at the 
Funeral of HRH Princess Amelia’.

A “beautiful, slender girl with ruby lips and auburn hair… amiable, 
spirited, unselfish and intelligent”, and the “most turbulent and 
tempestuous of all the Princesses”, Princess Amelia [b.1783] was the 
fifteenth child and sixth (& youngest) daughter of King George III. Even 
her sister-in-law, the Princess Caroline, who disliked her in-laws with 
a fierce intensity, estimated Amelia as the "most amiable of the bunch". 
Princess Amelia was said to be her father’s favorite, and he called her 
‘Emily’, though the duties of kingship, and his increasingly frequent 
bouts of insanity, resulted in Amelia and her closest sisters, Mary and 
Sophia, being brought up by governesses.

Starting around 1798 Amelia suffered a series of ailments, including 
early symptoms of tuberculosis, for which she was often sent to the 
seaside to recuperate, but she never really regained full health. An 
1808 case of measles deteriorated into erysipelas, and she died on the 
2nd of November, 1810. Her death is credited by some historians as 
having helped push George III into the final mental decline which 
resulted in the institution of the Regency Act of 1811, and he was said 
by his physician to cry "in a wild, monotonous, delirious way, 'Oh 
Emily, why won't you save your father? I hate all the physicians…”. She 
was buried on November 13th at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

This sketch of the arrangement of the chapel for the funeral includes 
the coffin and chairs around it, and notes about which royal personages, 
lords, and officials were sitting in each section. Presumably sketched 
at the time of the funeral, with one cross-out and correction.

Single sheet. 8”x12.5”. Folds, edge wear, corners chipped. Minor soil. 
[45697]  $1,200

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