vivelareine:They [the royal family] are under inexpressible affliction and none more so than the Kin

vivelareine:They [the royal family] are under inexpressible affliction and none more so than the King and Queen, who all along expressed apprehension of the load which [Louis XV’s] death would throw upon them and which their youth and inexperience made them so little able to bear. One of the Dauphin’s expressions was ‘It seems to me that the Universe will fall on me.’ –from the May 11, 1774 dispatch of Lord Stormont, the British ambassador to France in 1774. -- source link

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