Maybe, and thank you for reassuring me I wasn't misremembering everything! I also assume he has it from the Anne biography listed in his bibliography. However, his bibliography also includes Wilhelmine's memoirs, so even if he thought Wilhelmine had gotten it wrong, he had to know there was an alternative narration out there.
BTW, more anecdotes/details I forgot to include in my write up:
a) As we know from the Lady Mary bios, Caroline's support of Lady Mary in the inocculation campaign was instrumental. Reminder: Lady Mary returned from Turkey having learned about inocculation against smallpox and having had her son inocculated there. In Britain, she also inocculated her daughter (who'd still been a newborn baby in Turkey, hence too young, which caused a huge controversy and many attacks until Caroline (herself a smallpox survivor, like Mary) decided to have her own children inocculated as well. (Other than Anne, who had just survived smallpox, too, and had a scarred face to show for it.) What we hadn't known before: Caroline was cautious enough - like MT - to test this out on other people first, in her case on ten prisoners volunteering against the promise of a pardon. (Nine survived, but the one who died had been sick already.) Then she had her kids inocculated. (Including Fritz of Wales - a doctor travelled to Hannover to repeat the procedure on him.)
b) Voltaire dedicated the Henriad to Caroline, which tells you something about her reputation as an art patroness at this point. His dedication says that as Henri IV was protected by an English Queen - Elizabeth I - he could think of no one more suitable than the future Queen of England to protect his epic.
c) Caroline wasn't jealous of Henrietta Howard on account of G2 - she knew she had the upper hand there - but she did resent that Henrietta Howard became a sought after patroness as well and was prefered by both Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.
(c1 - I had forgotten, but the book reminded me again - the Liliputians from "Gullivers Travels" would have been understood by Swifts contemporaries as a satire on all the small German principalities, especially Hannnover.)
d) Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough and Anne's ex-Favourite had been in disgrace along with her husband until the Hannover succession, so Caroline thought it was a good idea to appoint her as one of the ladies of the bedchamber. (Marlborough = popular hero) As part of her "win over the Brits" campaign. However, Sarah being Sarah, she was incurably snobbish and refered to Caroline as a "little German princess" and "Madam Ansbach". Caroline then nicknamed the Churchills "the Imperial family".
e) Like I said, Caroline milked the propaganda value of her rejection of Charles' proposal for the rest of her life. Never more entertainingly (to me) than when the Archbishop of Canterbury after her coronation thought he needed to explain CoE theology to her some more (despite Caroline having converted along with G2 years earlier), and Caroline retorted: "Does he really believe I do not understand Protestantism, I, who rejected an Empire for it?"
Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach - I: Cinderella
BTW, more anecdotes/details I forgot to include in my write up:
a) As we know from the Lady Mary bios, Caroline's support of Lady Mary in the inocculation campaign was instrumental. Reminder: Lady Mary returned from Turkey having learned about inocculation against smallpox and having had her son inocculated there. In Britain, she also inocculated her daughter (who'd still been a newborn baby in Turkey, hence too young, which caused a huge controversy and many attacks until Caroline (herself a smallpox survivor, like Mary) decided to have her own children inocculated as well. (Other than Anne, who had just survived smallpox, too, and had a scarred face to show for it.) What we hadn't known before: Caroline was cautious enough - like MT - to test this out on other people first, in her case on ten prisoners volunteering against the promise of a pardon. (Nine survived, but the one who died had been sick already.) Then she had her kids inocculated. (Including Fritz of Wales - a doctor travelled to Hannover to repeat the procedure on him.)
b) Voltaire dedicated the Henriad to Caroline, which tells you something about her reputation as an art patroness at this point. His dedication says that as Henri IV was protected by an English Queen - Elizabeth I - he could think of no one more suitable than the future Queen of England to protect his epic.
c) Caroline wasn't jealous of Henrietta Howard on account of G2 - she knew she had the upper hand there - but she did resent that Henrietta Howard became a sought after patroness as well and was prefered by both Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.
(c1 - I had forgotten, but the book reminded me again - the Liliputians from "Gullivers Travels" would have been understood by Swifts contemporaries as a satire on all the small German principalities, especially Hannnover.)
d) Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough and Anne's ex-Favourite had been in disgrace along with her husband until the Hannover succession, so Caroline thought it was a good idea to appoint her as one of the ladies of the bedchamber. (Marlborough = popular hero) As part of her "win over the Brits" campaign. However, Sarah being Sarah, she was incurably snobbish and refered to Caroline as a "little German princess" and "Madam Ansbach". Caroline then nicknamed the Churchills "the Imperial family".
e) Like I said, Caroline milked the propaganda value of her rejection of Charles' proposal for the rest of her life. Never more entertainingly (to me) than when the Archbishop of Canterbury after her coronation thought he needed to explain CoE theology to her some more (despite Caroline having converted along with G2 years earlier), and Caroline retorted: "Does he really believe I do not understand Protestantism, I, who rejected an Empire for it?"