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In Lady Munster's memoirs she speaks repeated[[addition]] ly [[/addition]] of Queen Adelaide's unfailing kindness, and the wonderful Christmas parties that she used to plan at the Pavilion [[addition]] . [[/addition]] When in residence there, it was the King's custom to have a list of the visitors at the two principal hotels, sent to him [[deletion]] regularly [[/deletion]] [[addition]] daily [[/addition]]; in this way he was able to arrange that any one he might wish to see, should be sent a command to dine. When these dinner parties took place the King [[deletion]] always [[/deletion]] made the round of his guests before dinner, and whenever it was possible, he always like [[addition]] d [[/addition]] to have one of his five daughters to go round with him After the King's death, and when her daughters were older, Lady Frederick took them to Dresden, Prague, and afterwards to Italy, but owing to Lord Frederick's horror of Catholicism [[addition]] , [[/addition]] Rome was carefully avoided; firmly implanted in his mind was the conviction [[addition]] , [[/addition]] that once in Rome, one of his "girlies" as he ^ [[addition]] used to [[/addition]] call [[deletion]] ed [[/deletion]] his step-daughters, would either become a nun, a sister-of-mercy, or the wife of an Italian! In August 1855, both Lady Augusta's daughters were married on the same day, Adelaid[[addition]] e [[/addition]], the elder one, marrying ^ [[addition]] her cousin [[/addition]] Lord Munster, Millicent her younger sister, marrying James Hay Wemys of Wemyss Castle. Lady Frederick Gordon died in 1865, Lord Frederick Gordon in in 1878. At the close of the 1914-18 War, Mr Wemyss's second son, Rear-Admiral Lord Wester Wemyss, signed the Peace Treaty at Compiegne on behalf of the British Navy.