Caroline gives birth to the William whose birth (and early death) triggered the crisis: November 1717.
January 1718: G1 starts legal proceedings, enquiring from the judges whether "the Education and Care of the Prsons of HIs Majesty's Grandchildren, and ordering the Place of their Abode, & Appointing their Governors, Governesses and other Instructors, Attendants and servant, and the Care and Approbation of their Marriages when grown up, belong of right to his Majesty, as King of this Realm, or not?" Unsurprisngly, a majority of judges decides damn well they do.
(Prussian war tribunals apparantly are made of sterner stuff when it comes to refusing monarchs the judgment they want to have.)
At first, Caroline's fave the Countess (Schaumburg-Lippe-)Bückeburg who is the girls' governess is allowed to visit her each evening to report on the kids. And then G1 fires her as governess (she was Caroline's bff) and replaces her by Lady Portland.
(G2 and Caroline hated Lady Portland accordingly and fired her as soon as G1 had breathed his last, but since the girls once grown up kept corresponding with her, one can say they grew attached and she evidently wasn't an evil cliché.)
(Lady Mary who met the fired Lady Portland shortly after the firing gave a witty though heartless description of her in her letters since Lady P had taken the firing to heart: "Her funereal appearance represented very finely an Egyptian Mummy embroider'd with hieroglyphics.")
On a similar note, G2 unsurprisingly fired the bulk of his father's servants and attendants after G1's death. Otoh, Fritz of Wales once finally arriving in London hired most of those who were still there and out of a job (remember, it took over a year between the death and Fritz of Wales' kidnapping, err, invite) into his personal service. Given he'd likely known many of them from Hannover, that makes sense and wasn't yet an anti-Dad gesture.)
Summer of 1720: G1 returns to Hannover. For this occasion, he allows the three princesses to rejoin their parents.
Anyway: as you might recall, when G2 later when at the height of his war against Fritz of Wales gets reminded of his own quarrel with his father, he doesn't just retort "This is different, I was in the right then and am in the right now!", he also emphasizes how much better he treats FoW than his father has treated him because he doesn't take his children from him, even though he could, because he knows what it's like. Now G2 would never win a parent of the year award, but I think he wasn't being disingeneous here but meant both these statements, in his G2 way, and he and Caroline couldn't understand why Fritz of Wales wasn't properly grateful.
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Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach- II: People Manager
Date: 2021-08-01 11:21 am (UTC)Caroline gives birth to the William whose birth (and early death) triggered the crisis: November 1717.
January 1718: G1 starts legal proceedings, enquiring from the judges whether "the Education and Care of the Prsons of HIs Majesty's Grandchildren, and ordering the Place of their Abode, & Appointing their Governors, Governesses and other Instructors, Attendants and servant, and the Care and Approbation of their Marriages when grown up, belong of right to his Majesty, as King of this Realm, or not?" Unsurprisngly, a majority of judges decides damn well they do.
(Prussian war tribunals apparantly are made of sterner stuff when it comes to refusing monarchs the judgment they want to have.)
At first, Caroline's fave the Countess (Schaumburg-Lippe-)Bückeburg who is the girls' governess is allowed to visit her each evening to report on the kids. And then G1 fires her as governess (she was Caroline's bff) and replaces her by Lady Portland.
(G2 and Caroline hated Lady Portland accordingly and fired her as soon as G1 had breathed his last, but since the girls once grown up kept corresponding with her, one can say they grew attached and she evidently wasn't an evil cliché.)
(Lady Mary who met the fired Lady Portland shortly after the firing gave a witty though heartless description of her in her letters since Lady P had taken the firing to heart: "Her funereal appearance represented very finely an Egyptian Mummy embroider'd with hieroglyphics.")
On a similar note, G2 unsurprisingly fired the bulk of his father's servants and attendants after G1's death. Otoh, Fritz of Wales once finally arriving in London hired most of those who were still there and out of a job (remember, it took over a year between the death and Fritz of Wales' kidnapping, err, invite) into his personal service. Given he'd likely known many of them from Hannover, that makes sense and wasn't yet an anti-Dad gesture.)
Summer of 1720: G1 returns to Hannover. For this occasion, he allows the three princesses to rejoin their parents.
Anyway: as you might recall, when G2 later when at the height of his war against Fritz of Wales gets reminded of his own quarrel with his father, he doesn't just retort "This is different, I was in the right then and am in the right now!", he also emphasizes how much better he treats FoW than his father has treated him because he doesn't take his children from him, even though he could, because he knows what it's like. Now G2 would never win a parent of the year award, but I think he wasn't being disingeneous here but meant both these statements, in his G2 way, and he and Caroline couldn't understand why Fritz of Wales wasn't properly grateful.