Abstract
Following the Second French Revolution of July 1830, the incoming government of King Louis-Philippe arranged for the deposed King Charles X and his court to be taken across the Channel to exile in Britain. Charles remained on board to avoid encountering his creditors. His nine-year-old grandson the duc de Bordeaux and several other exiles landed at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, where they were invited to lunch by General Sir James Willoughby Gordon. Anxious to be on good terms with the new regime in Paris, the duke of Wellington was preoccupied with finding a resting place for the former king and his court from which they would be unable to stir up counter-revolutionary activities. After a brief stay at Lulworth Castle in Dorset, Charles was moved to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where Scottish law provided some protection from his creditors. This article makes use of rarely examined Gordon and Wellington family papers and a variety of local press reports to reveal the colourful story of the rather strange reception of an exiled monarch and his court on the coast of England in the midst of a tense diplomatic environment and a general election.
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