He planted his ordnance on Hay Hill, and then marched by St James's Palace to Charing Cross.
The public proclamation of the queen took place on the 21st at St James's Palace with great pomp.
She was now treated with every honour and civility, and finally established with her own court at St James's Palace.
Hence King's Road leads west, a wholly commercial highway, named in honour of Charles II., and recalling the king's private road from St James's Palace to Fulham, which was maintained until the reign of George IV.
On 28th April she arrived home, and a few days later the prince of Wales's second son, George, duke of York (see George V.), who by his brother's death had been left in the direct line of succession to the throne, was betrothed to the Princess May, the marriage being celebrated on 6th July in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace.
