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In Lady Munster's memoirs she speaks repeatedaddition 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, Adelaidaddition 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.