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The FitzClarence Family. References to the FitzClarence sons in contemporary memoirs are seldom flattering, and this is especially so in the case of George FitzClarence, who, on the Duke of Clarence's accession to the the throne was created Earl of Munster. But while "natural" children, [[deletion]] as they were called in Scotland, [[/deletion]] seem to have been accepted ^ [[addition]] at this time [[/addition]] in the upper classes, even sharing the home in quite a few cases, with the legit [[addition]] i [[/addition]] mate family, this was not so [[addition]] at this time [[/addition]] [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] in the case of the Royal family; the example [[deletion]] that had been [[/deletion]] set by King George III and Queen Charlotte had not been without its effect; even the marriage of the [[addition]] (1) [[/addition]] Duke of Sussex to Lady Augusta Murray in 1796 had ^ [[addition]] evidently [[/addition]] given dissatisfaction [[deletion]] How much all these things overcloud the prospect ot the future history of the succession in this kingdom and augment the risks to which the reigning dynasty as well as the very monarchy itself are exposed (2) [[/deletion]] And twenty years later, Royal bastards are referred to by Charles KirkPatrick Sharpe in no uncertain terms. Illegitimate children are never to be borne in a pedigree. I may venture to say this now, as I shall never be in London any more, where it made one sick to see so many of Charles II's [[underline]] imputed [[/underline]] sins, (he was not the real sinner in one half of them), taking place of their betters, with all the pomp and parade possible. Their real progenitors were players and rope-dancers. Doubtless in King William's reign, seeing his illegitimate sons "Taking the place of their betters in all the pomp and parade possible must have aroused much feeling, and as making provision for Royal bastards had become far more difficult in the nineteenth century then it had been two centures earlier, charges of avariciousness are often preferred against the FitzClarences. (1) Daughter of the 4th Earl of Dunmore. (2) Lord Glenbervie's Diary. Vol II (3) Memoirs of Charles KirkPatrick Sharpe.
