'Queen Caroline
had retired to Italy to avoid persecution in 1814, by the advice of
Mr. Canning.
The persecutions to which she had been subjected arose in a quarter
from which she least expected it—from her husband, the regent. [...]
Spies had been sent into Italy to watch her conduct; and the result
was that she was finally charged with living in open adultery with an
Italian courier, named Bergami, a man whom she had raised from that
station to the first office in her household.
[...] She had heard of the death of her father, and the accession of
her husband in February, while at Rome, and she immediately assumed
the royal title, and demanded a guard of honour from the papal
government. This demand was not complied with, because no official
communication had been received from the king or his ministers on the
subject: his holiness, indeed, represented that he did not know
whether the Queen of England was in Rome or not.'