did they know it was a bowel - I suspect as well they originally thought it was a growth.
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?
You know, I think that's very likely. Because while Fritz of Wales didn't see his parents and siblings for fourteen years, he did see his grandfather G1 whenever G1 was visiting Hannover during his reign, and Melusine was with him on those occasions. Also, Horace Walpole son of Sir Robert Walpole (G2's PM for years and years) claims that Melusine was tight with the opposition to his Dad, who was also a political enemy of FoW's (the more so the more Fritz of Wales drifted towards said opposition).
G2 having contempt and hate for his sister SD: starting Horace Walpole's memoir, I am stunned to discover HW claims that SD, daughter of G1, was "a staunch Jacobite" all her life. Now, this is the first time I've come across this claim - certainly no biographer and memoirist we've come across so far on the German side claims that, and it makes absolutely no sense in terms of SD's most dear ambition (her daughter as Queen of England, Fritz married to a Hannover-British princess and preferably governing Hannover). So I feel safe to say it's not true. However, I'm perfectly willing to believe Horace W. heard it from his primary source of G2 stories, to wit, G2's official English mistress Lady Suffolk. (Who was increasingly deaf, btw.) and didn't question it further, because HW, of a generation later than Hervey, lived until 1791 and when writing his memoir has already outlived Fritz of Prussia (whom he refers to as the late great King of Prussia). Meaning: he probably knew about Fritz favoring the Scottish Keiths, who actually were Jacobites, and the story of sending George Keith as ambassador to Versailles despite the insult to uncle G2. Maybe when that happened G2 said something like "typical! I bet his mother put him up to it!" and thus the English court, unfamiliar with SD as a person for the most part, drew this "aha! SD the Jacobite!" conclusion.
Algarotti: might reconsider Lady Mary as an option, because Hervey vs Fritz of Prussia is bound to get way uglier than his rl triangle. Or maybe he elopes with Andrew Mitchell. :)
Your scenario: sounds very likely except for one thing: what does Fritz of Prussia do the first time G2 disses the Best of All Mothers in his presence?
Re: Hervey's Memoirs: King Lear's Family has nothing on this
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?
You know, I think that's very likely. Because while Fritz of Wales didn't see his parents and siblings for fourteen years, he did see his grandfather G1 whenever G1 was visiting Hannover during his reign, and Melusine was with him on those occasions. Also, Horace Walpole son of Sir Robert Walpole (G2's PM for years and years) claims that Melusine was tight with the opposition to his Dad, who was also a political enemy of FoW's (the more so the more Fritz of Wales drifted towards said opposition).
G2 having contempt and hate for his sister SD: starting Horace Walpole's memoir, I am stunned to discover HW claims that SD, daughter of G1, was "a staunch Jacobite" all her life. Now, this is the first time I've come across this claim - certainly no biographer and memoirist we've come across so far on the German side claims that, and it makes absolutely no sense in terms of SD's most dear ambition (her daughter as Queen of England, Fritz married to a Hannover-British princess and preferably governing Hannover). So I feel safe to say it's not true. However, I'm perfectly willing to believe Horace W. heard it from his primary source of G2 stories, to wit, G2's official English mistress Lady Suffolk. (Who was increasingly deaf, btw.) and didn't question it further, because HW, of a generation later than Hervey, lived until 1791 and when writing his memoir has already outlived Fritz of Prussia (whom he refers to as the late great King of Prussia). Meaning: he probably knew about Fritz favoring the Scottish Keiths, who actually were Jacobites, and the story of sending George Keith as ambassador to Versailles despite the insult to uncle G2. Maybe when that happened G2 said something like "typical! I bet his mother put him up to it!" and thus the English court, unfamiliar with SD as a person for the most part, drew this "aha! SD the Jacobite!" conclusion.
Algarotti: might reconsider Lady Mary as an option, because Hervey vs Fritz of Prussia is bound to get way uglier than his rl triangle. Or maybe he elopes with Andrew Mitchell. :)
Your scenario: sounds very likely except for one thing: what does Fritz of Prussia do the first time G2 disses the Best of All Mothers in his presence?