Lol, I laughed! (I certainly wouldn't be able to manage it :P )
None of her British contemporaries could, so she shows up as the Comtesse de Picbourg, and historians took a while till they figured out this was the same lady who in Hannover chronicles is the Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg. Incidentally, she was the one who critiqued the English ladies' posture as crouching and almost fearful instead of standing straight and, well, "Brust raus", whereupon the indignant Brits said an English lady is a lady due to titles and manners, not by displaying her bosom.
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Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach - I: Cinderella
Date: 2021-07-29 01:29 pm (UTC)None of her British contemporaries could, so she shows up as the Comtesse de Picbourg, and historians took a while till they figured out this was the same lady who in Hannover chronicles is the Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg. Incidentally, she was the one who critiqued the English ladies' posture as crouching and almost fearful instead of standing straight and, well, "Brust raus", whereupon the indignant Brits said an English lady is a lady due to titles and manners, not by displaying her bosom.