Caroline, who had treasured the time G2 spent with his mistress as her prefered reading hours, was most put off and wrote a tart letter Lady Suffolk (as she was then) going on about how at their age, Henrietta should be past behaving like the heroine of a novel. But Lady Suffolk ignored this.
This is fantastically hilarious and rather makes me like Caroline even more.
(There's a joke about physicists that goes a little like that -- the punchline being that the physicist likes to have both a wife and a mistress because the wife thinks the physicist is with the mistress and the mistress thinks the physicist is with the wife, and meanwhile the physicist can sneak off and do physics...)
Whom he described en detail in his letters to Caroline (well enough she could paint the lady's portrait, as she snarked to Hervey), because Caroline was his best friend in addition to his wife and of course he had to tell her about his exciting new mistress, there were no secrets between them. That was G2 for you.
OMG! G2, on the other hand... *facepalm* On the other hand, I suppose Caroline's practical side was probably at least a little reassured by knowing G2 thought of her as a best friend. I guess. And at least she had more time to read :P (That being said, it is hilarious. G2!)
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Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach - I: Cinderella
Date: 2021-07-31 05:31 am (UTC)This is fantastically hilarious and rather makes me like Caroline even more.
(There's a joke about physicists that goes a little like that -- the punchline being that the physicist likes to have both a wife and a mistress because the wife thinks the physicist is with the mistress and the mistress thinks the physicist is with the wife, and meanwhile the physicist can sneak off and do physics...)
Whom he described en detail in his letters to Caroline (well enough she could paint the lady's portrait, as she snarked to Hervey), because Caroline was his best friend in addition to his wife and of course he had to tell her about his exciting new mistress, there were no secrets between them. That was G2 for you.
OMG! G2, on the other hand... *facepalm* On the other hand, I suppose Caroline's practical side was probably at least a little reassured by knowing G2 thought of her as a best friend. I guess. And at least she had more time to read :P (That being said, it is hilarious. G2!)