They neither of them made much ceremony of wishing a hundred times a day that the Prince might drop down dead of an apoplexy— the Queen cursing the hour of his birth, and the Princess Caroline declaring she grudged him every hour he continued to breathe ;

Wow. Even accounting for Hervey maybe not being the most reliable narrator here... gosh.

That analysis of his motives in third person is really... something. I gotta say that it does not inspire me to think of him as more reliable than I thought of him before.