 The story of Charlotte 's flight and return was soon the talk of the town ; Henry Brougham , a former MP and future Whig Lord Chancellor , reported " All are against the Prince " , and the Opposition press made much of the tale of the runaway Princess . Despite an emotional reconciliation with his daughter , the Prince Regent soon had her conveyed to Cranbourne Lodge , where her attendants were under orders never to let her out of their sight . She was able to smuggle a note out to her favourite uncle , Augustus , Duke of Sussex . The Duke responded by questioning the Tory Prime Minister , Lord Liverpool , in the House of Lords . He asked whether Charlotte was free to come and go , whether she was allowed to go to the seaside as doctors had recommended for her in the past , and now that she was eighteen , whether the government planned to give her a separate establishment . Liverpool evaded the questions , and the Duke was summoned to Carlton House and castigated by the Prince Regent , who never spoke with his brother again . 
