Death and Aftermath
After Amelia's death, George Villiers, the King's bailiff, and younger brother of Thomas Villiers, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, attempted to blackmail the King and Queen with letters belonging to Amelia, after the disappearance of £280,000 in his control. Villiers was father of later diplomat and statesman George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon.
Her death is partly credited to the decline in her father's health which resulted in his insanity and the subsequent invocation of the Regency Act of 1811. According to his doctor Dr Willis, the king would later cry "in a wild, monotonous, delirious way, 'Oh Emily, why won't you save your father? I hate all the physicians..." Another of King George's delusions included the belief that a healthy Amelia was only staying in Hanover with a large family of her own, where she would "never grow older and always be well." All Amelia's siblings were also very affected by her death, especially her two oldest brothers George and Frederick, George was so affected that he started to cry everytime Amelia was mentioned after her death.
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