BRITISH HISTORY IN STONE
... No- 9 Frederick, Duke of York, 1763-1827 IT was five o'clock in the morning. The broad Mall was deserted. Lon don still slept. Even the roisterers in the gam bling clubs of St. James's Street must have been yawn ing. From a side door of Carlton House, overlooking St. James's Park, crept a portly figure. He had the air of a conspirator and rightly so, for he was in disguise. But there was ...