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The FitzClarence Family. image
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.
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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 shal never be in London any more, where it made one sick to see so many of Charles II's imputed 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 unclear Diary. Vol II (3) Memoirs of Charles KirkPatrick Sharpe.
