Grafting my half-witted (son) upon a madwoman would not mend the breed.
Heh.
Sidenote: I'm the last to believe fervent German nationalists, but I think that one quoted SD's letter, and it did sound somewhat differently as far as I recall.
Hmm, that's interesting.
Dennison thinks it's very unfair that Caroline is forgotten today, who'd been the first Princess of Wales since a young Katherine of Aragon and who'd been the most powerful Queen Consort in many a generation, too, doing more than any other single member of the Hannover royal family to assure it became largedly accepted in GB, and he opes his biography helps bringing her memory back at least somewhat.
Well, between his biography and your as-always-excellent-and-entertaining writeup, you have definitely given me a lot of feelings I hadn't previously had about Caroline, who seems to have been an intelligent and overall just fascinating person.
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Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach- III: Gloriana
Heh.
Sidenote: I'm the last to believe fervent German nationalists, but I think that one quoted SD's letter, and it did sound somewhat differently as far as I recall.
Hmm, that's interesting.
Dennison thinks it's very unfair that Caroline is forgotten today, who'd been the first Princess of Wales since a young Katherine of Aragon and who'd been the most powerful Queen Consort in many a generation, too, doing more than any other single member of the Hannover royal family to assure it became largedly accepted in GB, and he opes his biography helps bringing her memory back at least somewhat.
Well, between his biography and your as-always-excellent-and-entertaining writeup, you have definitely given me a lot of feelings I hadn't previously had about Caroline, who seems to have been an intelligent and overall just fascinating person.