Mrs. Delany describes her first meeting with the Queen thus The King desired me to show the Queen one of my books of plants. She seated herself in the gallery a table and the book laid before her. I kept my distance till she called me to ask some questions about the mosaic paper work, and as I stood before Her Majesty the King set a chair behind me. I turned with some confusion and hesitation on receiving so great an honour, when the Queen said- 'Mrs. Delany, sit down, sit down it is not every lady that has a chair brought her by a King.' So I obeyed.