"It is with the greatest pleasure that I shall read the next chapter of your royal highness’s færy-tale," Mrs. Braithwaite predicted. "In this Household it is an oft-told tale that when your royal highness was stricken with the smallpox, two years after your wedding, his royal highness George Augustus spurned the counsel of the physicians, and placed his own life at risk to sit by his young bride’s bedside and hold her hand."