Prince Augustus was already married, morganatically, but she did not know it, and he did not tell her.

While she was spinning out the negotiations with the Prince of Orange, the allied sovereign--it was June, 1814--arrived in London to celebrate their victory.

Among them, in the suite of the Emperor of Russia, was the young and handsome Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

He made several attempts to attract the notice of the Princess, but she, with her heart elsewhere, paid very little attention.

Next month the Prince Regent, discovering that his daughter was having secret meetings with Prince Augustus, suddenly appeared upon the scene and, after dismissing her household, sentenced her to a strict seclusion in Windsor Park.