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.
Since he is an English speaker, is it possible that he had the bowdlerized version of the memoirs and that bit was taken out? (I don't have time to look right now.)
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.
Hee, that's awesome.
(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.)
Oh, I think I remember learning about this in Brit Lit class! Of course, at the time I had no historical context for it, so it didn't really register.
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
Since he is an English speaker, is it possible that he had the bowdlerized version of the memoirs and that bit was taken out? (I don't have time to look right now.)
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.
Hee, that's awesome.
(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.)
Oh, I think I remember learning about this in Brit Lit class! Of course, at the time I had no historical context for it, so it didn't really register.
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?"
LOL Caroline, way to milk it :D