I mean he was kinda wrong there ...although this link makes it sound like he was fine with Handel, just not with Handel's opera company? Which makes a lot more sense to me, honestly. (And which Hervey's excerpt does not make clear at all!)
not refering to the Queen in his letters to the King (classified as a sign of disrespect by his parents)
Whoa. This is the kind of thing that getting upset about is just so textbook dysfunctional family that it pulled me up short reading it. Yeah, I can totally see what you call the catastrophic feedback loop happening, where at some point everyone just gets so hostile to everyone else that no one is willing to give anyone else even kind of the benefit of the doubt. Gah!
Meanwhile, despite groving up in Hannover, he really did his best to fit in, to become English, using only this language when talking to Brits, not French, and during his friendship with Hervey co-writing a play in it. (A bad play, but that's besides the point). Later when he was a father he ensured that English was the children's first language (hence G3 being the first Hannover monarch who actually spoke English as his native language). The friends he chose were from Britain, not from the Germans at court.
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Re: Hervey's Memoirs: Who's the worst Fritz of them all?
Date: 2020-10-01 05:26 am (UTC)I mean he was kinda wrong there...although this link makes it sound like he was fine with Handel, just not with Handel's opera company? Which makes a lot more sense to me, honestly. (And which Hervey's excerpt does not make clear at all!)not refering to the Queen in his letters to the King (classified as a sign of disrespect by his parents)
Whoa. This is the kind of thing that getting upset about is just so textbook dysfunctional family that it pulled me up short reading it. Yeah, I can totally see what you call the catastrophic feedback loop happening, where at some point everyone just gets so hostile to everyone else that no one is willing to give anyone else even kind of the benefit of the doubt. Gah!
Meanwhile, despite groving up in Hannover, he really did his best to fit in, to become English, using only this language when talking to Brits, not French, and during his friendship with Hervey co-writing a play in it. (A bad play, but that's besides the point). Later when he was a father he ensured that English was the children's first language (hence G3 being the first Hannover monarch who actually spoke English as his native language). The friends he chose were from Britain, not from the Germans at court.
I find that rather endearing :)