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Aquarium teaching ‘ladies
how they may save
themselves and others from
drowning . . . every afternoon
and evening [she] shows the
fair sex how to master the
water, and swim and dive and
float as dexterously as a
Mermaid’. The Princess of
Wales came to watch,
bringing her children along,
which meant Frederick could
now promote his daughter as
being ‘patronized by the