I'm on vacation, she says. I won't be able to do write-ups, she says. :D
Seriously, you are the best, and this is very in-character of you.
Her doctors should have pushed that loop of bowel back inside and hoped that the hole would heal, but instead they made a terrible error. They cut it off. Now Caroline’s digestive system was destroyed, and she took ten days to die.
Oooh nooooo! That sounds like the *worst*. Did they know it was a bowel? 'Cause this would make sense if they thought it was some random growth.
our Victorian editor childes Hervey for providing them (about a lady! and a Queen!) and proudly announces he protects us readers from them as much as he can.
*sigh*
I am really looking forward to Smith and Taylor's new and improved post-Victorian edition.
Considering most of said letters were burned by Caroline when G2 became King, the Royals think that Fritz must have gotten those letters from the Duchess of Kendal. (Aka Aunt Melusine to Katte, mistress of G1.) Otoh, Hervey thinks Fritz must have a spy in the palace, because the letters published are just those three not burned.
Hmmm. Reading between the lines, does this mean Melusine (lover of G1 and possibly therefore not a fan of G2?) and Fritz of Wales were on good terms?
G1 was a way harsher father, since he temporarily took G2's children from him during their biggest argument, while G2 generously declared he wouldn't do that to FoW.
Fritz of Prussia: And I'm with you on that! My younger siblings don't know how good they have it.
the famous "Marry again after my death"/ "No, I will have mistresses!" exchange in French between Caroline and G2, for which Hervey is the source
Hervey is the British Lehndorff counterpart in another way: our source for all these anecdotes we know!
The "Reminscences" are by Horace Walpole, son of Sir Robert Walpole and the other great bitchy memoirist of the Georgian era:
Which you will not be surprised to find in the library. They're so incredibly short the editor feels the need to apologize and flesh them out with a supplement of collected letters in order to make it long enough to be a short book instead of a long essay.
Et tu, Caroline? You owe your education to her, among other things. I feel let down.
But where would this family be without everyone bitching at everybody else?
So what is this estimation - that SD deserved contempt but not hate - based on? Perhaps all that begging for the English marriages struck him as pathetic, even if he didn't care enough to note it down, but that's the only thing I can think of.
The only thing I can think of is Wilhelmine's description of her that she gives the appearance of having more intellectual and artistic depth than she actually has, but 1) given that she's a queen, I'm not sure that more is expected of her? 2) I'm not sure how much Hervey would care about that. It is the sort of thing he could have picked up with out meeting her, though.
As to why G2 should have contempt and hate for his sister: search me.
I feel like with siblings, you don't necessarily need a reason? Sometimes someone just rubs you the wrong way, and with family, it's harder to resort to indifference. Actually, biologist Robert Sapolsky, who studies baboons in the wild, says that there are interpersonal (interbaboonal?) interactions that strike fellow baboons as weird--unless it's between two family members, and then they shrug it off.
I mean, clearly there's *some* kind of reason, and we may come across it, but it doesn't necessarily have to have been significant enough to be obvious to outsiders.
(Provided most circumstances stay the same.) Would Fritz of Prussia have had the fatal relationship and fallout with Hervey instead of Fritz of Wales?
Hmm. If we assume Fritz of Prussia stays in England until FW dies in 1740, instead of Amelia going to Prussia or both of them going to Hannover (maybe a successful esape to England?), then maybe. Only they fight over Algarotti instead of Anne Vane. :P
Algarotti: Guys, there's plenty of me to go around!
Would Caroline and G2 have accused Wilhelmine, too, of faking her pregnancy because their oldest surely can't sire a child?
Would Caroline and G2 have accused Wilhelmine and Fritz of Prussia of incest? It would have explained so much: how Wilhelmine got pregnant, why Fritz was present at the birth, why Fritz carried on the paternal tradition of beating up your first cousin rather than allow Wilhelmine to be moved... (Fritz of Prussia may not be much physically, but I say killer instinct and motivation count for a lot. Look at FW!)
Actually, let's assume Fritz of Prussia, living at close range with his sister's husband, doesn't really get along with Fritz of Wales. Let's further assume that G2 (plus Parliament, I guess) would have had to be pretty strongly pro-Fritz-of-Prussia to let a double marriage happen with Fritz living at the English court. (Husbands don't usually join their wives, especially when they are the heir to a throne. I have to assume successful escape, unless you have a better scenario.)
Also, G2 hates FW, something that Fritz can get behind.
So, G2-Fritz of Prussia alliance? [ETA: Until FW is dead and Fritz doesn't need him anymore, obviously.] This might affect the Wilhelmine treatment. Particularly when Fritz of Prussia beats up Fritz of Wales and father-in-law G2 slaps him on the back and says, "Attaboy." :P
Re: Hervey's Memoirs: King Lear's Family has nothing on this
Seriously, you are the best, and this is very in-character of you.
Her doctors should have pushed that loop of bowel back inside and hoped that the hole would heal, but instead they made a terrible error. They cut it off. Now Caroline’s digestive system was destroyed, and she took ten days to die.
Oooh nooooo! That sounds like the *worst*. Did they know it was a bowel? 'Cause this would make sense if they thought it was some random growth.
our Victorian editor childes Hervey for providing them (about a lady! and a Queen!) and proudly announces he protects us readers from them as much as he can.
*sigh*
I am really looking forward to Smith and Taylor's new and improved post-Victorian edition.
Considering most of said letters were burned by Caroline when G2 became King, the Royals think that Fritz must have gotten those letters from the Duchess of Kendal. (Aka Aunt Melusine to Katte, mistress of G1.) Otoh, Hervey thinks Fritz must have a spy in the palace, because the letters published are just those three not burned.
Hmmm. Reading between the lines, does this mean Melusine (lover of G1 and possibly therefore not a fan of G2?) and Fritz of Wales were on good terms?
G1 was a way harsher father, since he temporarily took G2's children from him during their biggest argument, while G2 generously declared he wouldn't do that to FoW.
Fritz of Prussia: And I'm with you on that! My younger siblings don't know how good they have it.
the famous "Marry again after my death"/ "No, I will have mistresses!" exchange in French between Caroline and G2, for which Hervey is the source
Hervey is the British Lehndorff counterpart in another way: our source for all these anecdotes we know!
The "Reminscences" are by Horace Walpole, son of Sir Robert Walpole and the other great bitchy memoirist of the Georgian era:
Which you will not be surprised to find in the library. They're so incredibly short the editor feels the need to apologize and flesh them out with a supplement of collected letters in order to make it long enough to be a short book instead of a long essay.
Et tu, Caroline? You owe your education to her, among other things. I feel let down.
But where would this family be without everyone bitching at everybody else?
So what is this estimation - that SD deserved contempt but not hate - based on? Perhaps all that begging for the English marriages struck him as pathetic, even if he didn't care enough to note it down, but that's the only thing I can think of.
The only thing I can think of is Wilhelmine's description of her that she gives the appearance of having more intellectual and artistic depth than she actually has, but 1) given that she's a queen, I'm not sure that more is expected of her? 2) I'm not sure how much Hervey would care about that. It is the sort of thing he could have picked up with out meeting her, though.
As to why G2 should have contempt and hate for his sister: search me.
I feel like with siblings, you don't necessarily need a reason? Sometimes someone just rubs you the wrong way, and with family, it's harder to resort to indifference. Actually, biologist Robert Sapolsky, who studies baboons in the wild, says that there are interpersonal (interbaboonal?) interactions that strike fellow baboons as weird--unless it's between two family members, and then they shrug it off.
I mean, clearly there's *some* kind of reason, and we may come across it, but it doesn't necessarily have to have been significant enough to be obvious to outsiders.
(Provided most circumstances stay the same.) Would Fritz of Prussia have had the fatal relationship and fallout with Hervey instead of Fritz of Wales?
Hmm. If we assume Fritz of Prussia stays in England until FW dies in 1740, instead of Amelia going to Prussia or both of them going to Hannover (maybe a successful esape to England?), then maybe. Only they fight over Algarotti instead of Anne Vane. :P
Algarotti: Guys, there's plenty of me to go around!
Would Caroline and G2 have accused Wilhelmine, too, of faking her pregnancy because their oldest surely can't sire a child?
Would Caroline and G2 have accused Wilhelmine and Fritz of Prussia of incest? It would have explained so much: how Wilhelmine got pregnant, why Fritz was present at the birth, why Fritz carried on the paternal tradition of beating up your first cousin rather than allow Wilhelmine to be moved... (Fritz of Prussia may not be much physically, but I say killer instinct and motivation count for a lot. Look at FW!)
Actually, let's assume Fritz of Prussia, living at close range with his sister's husband, doesn't really get along with Fritz of Wales. Let's further assume that G2 (plus Parliament, I guess) would have had to be pretty strongly pro-Fritz-of-Prussia to let a double marriage happen with Fritz living at the English court. (Husbands don't usually join their wives, especially when they are the heir to a throne. I have to assume successful escape, unless you have a better scenario.)
Also, G2 hates FW, something that Fritz can get behind.
So, G2-Fritz of Prussia alliance? [ETA: Until FW is dead and Fritz doesn't need him anymore, obviously.] This might affect the Wilhelmine treatment. Particularly when Fritz of Prussia beats up Fritz of Wales and father-in-law G2 slaps him on the back and says, "Attaboy." :P
Ah, the eternal soap opera!