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Drawing of a Restoration Fan, similiar to the one presented by the Queen to Fanny
© Olivia Davenport
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Fanny Burney: Royal Servant |
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Doctors had no idea how to treat the symptoms other than with their standard remedies of bleeding, blistering, cupping and purging which merely added to their patient’s distress. They decided that he should leave Windsor for the greater seclusion of his palace at Kew, though the King hated Kew and at first refused to leave his bed. Finally he was persuaded into his clothes and set off, watched by Windsorians convinced that they would never see their King alive again.
A miserable winter followed in cold, dark Kew but with spring, hope revived as the King slowly regained his sanity. When the court returned to Windsor on 14 March 1789, Fanny wrote that ‘All Windsor came out to meet the King’. The Council had voted to spend 40 guineas on a firework display, which Fanny watched from her windows. There were celebrations throughout the nation, and the Queen gave her a ‘Restoration’ fan inscribed with the words ‘Health restored to one, and happiness to millions’.
That summer, Fanny accompanied the royal family to Weymouth for the King to try some recuperative sea-bathing. On the return to Windsor two months later, the town again celebrated by erecting a triumphal arch across the High Street. Sadly it was not ready in time, Fanny noting that as the coaches rolled beneath men were still running up and down the ladders trying to finish it.
Words: Hester Davenport
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