Here is a telescope of about the right date. I can't make any sense of the book he bought. Can you?
Went to Covent Garden Play House to See an oratorio of Samson Organ Mr Hanley Violin Signor Giardini the King & all the Royal Family was their 5/-
Giardini, pictured below, was an Italian violinist and composer who settled in England.
The King was the soon to be crowned George III
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He was not married so there was no Queen (yet) but perhaps his mother, Augusta, Princess of Wales, accompanied him?
He also had brothers & sisters. He would, of course have had the usual quota of hangers on and flunkies!
The book: isn't it a single volume of the Tatler, and a song book for threepence.
ReplyDeleteThe dates are a bit odd for Tatler - it seems not to have been published regularly at this time. I suppose things didn't go out of date so fast in the 18th century.
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