Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Florizel

Prince of Bohemia, in love with Perdita. (Shakespeare: Winter's Tale.)

Florizel.
George the Fourth, when prince, corresponded under this name with Mrs. Robinson, actress and poet, generally known as Perdita, that being the character in which she first attracted the prince's attention. Prince Florizel, in Lord Beaconsfield's novel of Endymion (1880), is meant for Napoleon III.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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