ABSTRACT
When the relationship between Robinson and the Prince of Wales ended, she found herself in dire financial straits. She believed that, as was the custom of the time, a mistress who had been put aside was entitled to have her debts paid and an annuity arranged. She threatened to publish his letters, as the Morning Herald reported on 5 January 1781:
Mrs R—n … has written roundly to her once ardent lover, ‘that if her establishment is not duly arranged within the space of fourteen days commencement of the new year, his — — must not be surprized, if he sees full publication of all those seductory epistles which alone estranged her from virtue, and the marriage vow!’
