I was delighted and surprised to get more Hervey :D Though I hope you can sleep better!
Mildred, if you do get around to writing Fritz in G2's presence, imagine how the Hannover and Germany praise goes down then. :)
Lol, this would be awesome. Write this and I will bring popcorn :D
Alas, she then goes to Bath to enjoy the spa and dies. Little Fitzfrederick also dies with just a week distance. Hervey grudgingly admits Fritz of Wales seemed more distressed about this than anyone had thought him capable of being.
Sad as this is for Vane, I have to admit I laughed. Oh Hervey.
And you thought Voltaire was bitchy about Fritz and Fredersdorf.
lololol wow! I see that malicious gossip columnists have nothing on Hervey!
so there were some few who thought, or, I rather believe, affected to think, that this commerce between Lady Archibald Hamilton and the Prince was merely platonic, though stronger symptoms of an affaire faite never appeared on any pair than were to be seen between this couple.
So... was she actually his mistress?
Lord Delaware, if the King chose him to prevent the Prince's having any jealousy of his future bride's affections being purloined on the way by him who was sent to attend her to England, was the properest man his Majesty could have pitched upon
Man this guy does have a spiteful and hilarious way of phrasing things!
Lord Hervey was very ill with her : she had first used him ill, to flatter her brother, which of course had made him not use her very well ; and the preference on every occasion he gave her sister, the Princess Caroline, completed their mutual dislike.
Ha. The sympathies of this passage are definitely on the side of this "Lord Hervey" character :P I wouldn't trust his take on her either :P
Lady Archibald Hamilton, first name Jane: Wiki says she was his mistress, though Wiki appears to have Hervey as a source on this. However, wiki also tells me she was the mother of none other than Sir William Hamilton, later to first shock everyone by marrying Emma and then by being in a menage a trois with her and Nelson. Perhaps Sir William learned unconventional attitudes towards domestic arrangements from his parents?
Man this guy does have a spiteful and hilarious way of phrasing things!
Doesn't he just? Which is why I find it, in retrospect, really remarkable Franz Stephan got praised as he did by the super critical Hervey when visiting Britain. (I mean, Hervey's also extremely complimentary about the Fox brothers and Algarotti, but he was in love with each of these at different times, and wasn't, as far as anyone knows, in love with Franz Stephan.)
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Re: Hervey's Memoirs: Those Germans!
Mildred, if you do get around to writing Fritz in G2's presence, imagine how the Hannover and Germany praise goes down then. :)
Lol, this would be awesome. Write this and I will bring popcorn :D
Alas, she then goes to Bath to enjoy the spa and dies. Little Fitzfrederick also dies with just a week distance. Hervey grudgingly admits Fritz of Wales seemed more distressed about this than anyone had thought him capable of being.
Sad as this is for Vane, I have to admit I laughed. Oh Hervey.
And you thought Voltaire was bitchy about Fritz and Fredersdorf.
lololol wow! I see that malicious gossip columnists have nothing on Hervey!
so there were some few who thought, or, I rather believe, affected to think, that this commerce between Lady Archibald Hamilton and the Prince was merely platonic, though stronger symptoms of an affaire faite never appeared on any pair than were to be seen between this couple.
So... was she actually his mistress?
Lord Delaware, if the King chose him to prevent the Prince's having any jealousy of his future bride's affections being purloined on the way by him who was sent to attend her to England, was the properest man his Majesty could have pitched upon
Man this guy does have a spiteful and hilarious way of phrasing things!
Lord Hervey was very ill with her : she had first used him ill, to flatter her brother, which of course had made him not use her very well ; and the preference on every occasion he gave her sister, the Princess Caroline, completed their mutual dislike.
Ha. The sympathies of this passage are definitely on the side of this "Lord Hervey" character :P I wouldn't trust his take on her either :P
Re: Hervey's Memoirs: Those Germans!
Man this guy does have a spiteful and hilarious way of phrasing things!
Doesn't he just? Which is why I find it, in retrospect, really remarkable Franz Stephan got praised as he did by the super critical Hervey when visiting Britain. (I mean, Hervey's also extremely complimentary about the Fox brothers and Algarotti, but he was in love with each of these at different times, and wasn't, as far as anyone knows, in love with Franz Stephan.)
Re: Hervey's Memoirs: Those Germans!
Perhaps Sir William learned unconventional attitudes towards domestic arrangements from his parents?
Perhaps!
Which is why I find it, in retrospect, really remarkable Franz Stephan got praised as he did by the super critical Hervey when visiting Britain.
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