Dennison would get the Horowski seal of approval: he spells all the German names correctly (which is a true challenge in the case of the Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg)
Lol, I laughed! (I certainly wouldn't be able to manage it :P )
and the question mark as to whether or not Billa could have been his half sister didn't seem to bother him. (One can see the family resemblance to August.)
Hee! Indeed.
With the caveat that how we present ourselves in letters isn't necessarily how we're perceived in person, Dennison adds it's also worth noting down that Liselotte - who in her long life at Versailles had experienced all types of people - quickly took to Caroline and considered her both smart and engaging.
Huh, that's neat, I'm glad they had that correspondence. (And ha, yes to letters vs. in person, though I suppose it's probably not so easy to fake being smart even over letters :P )
It was an audacious gesture for a minor German princess - as I said, looking at the logistics of the time, it wasn't likely she could have hoped for a better proposal -, but it would pay off in dividends for the rest of her life
This is fascinating!
Now, George Louis and Sophie cunningly let young George Augustus believe this was all his idea, and he went through that romantic undercover mission where he under a pseudonym showed up at Ansbach (Caroline after Figuelotte's death had gone to her half brother's court) and fell in love at first sight. But there was a lot of stage management behind the scenes there.
Like MT! Clearly the takeaway here is that managed marriages work rather better than forced marriages :P
But Dennison thinks Caroline didn't consider him even for a microsecond, and I'm with him there.
But what's not to love! I mean besides EVERYTHING
may have been someone made for Caroline in more ways than by eventually making her Queen.
Yeah... I mean, I don't think it's mutually exclusive for Caroline to be a) thinking in a practical way about George's strengths as a husband (and maybe being annoyed by his weaknesses) and maybe not being particularly head-over-heels for him, and b) being genuinely fond of him.
*Usual horror at the idea of living in the past, ESPECIALLY as a woman*
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.
Yeah... I mean, I don't think it's mutually exclusive for Caroline to be a) thinking in a practical way about George's strengths as a husband (and maybe being annoyed by his weaknesses) and maybe not being particularly head-over-heels for him, and b) being genuinely fond of him.
Yeah, that's plausible! Something similar may have been the case for Philip V's doting wives who exercised a fair (but debatable) amount of power.
*Usual horror at the idea of living in the past, ESPECIALLY as a woman*
In the famous words of G2 when Fritz proposed visiting: "NO NO NO DO NOT WANT."
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Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach - I: Cinderella
Date: 2021-07-29 05:09 am (UTC)Lol, I laughed! (I certainly wouldn't be able to manage it :P )
and the question mark as to whether or not Billa could have been his half sister didn't seem to bother him. (One can see the family resemblance to August.)
Hee! Indeed.
With the caveat that how we present ourselves in letters isn't necessarily how we're perceived in person, Dennison adds it's also worth noting down that Liselotte - who in her long life at Versailles had experienced all types of people - quickly took to Caroline and considered her both smart and engaging.
Huh, that's neat, I'm glad they had that correspondence. (And ha, yes to letters vs. in person, though I suppose it's probably not so easy to fake being smart even over letters :P )
It was an audacious gesture for a minor German princess - as I said, looking at the logistics of the time, it wasn't likely she could have hoped for a better proposal -, but it would pay off in dividends for the rest of her life
This is fascinating!
Now, George Louis and Sophie cunningly let young George Augustus believe this was all his idea, and he went through that romantic undercover mission where he under a pseudonym showed up at Ansbach (Caroline after Figuelotte's death had gone to her half brother's court) and fell in love at first sight. But there was a lot of stage management behind the scenes there.
Like MT! Clearly the takeaway here is that managed marriages work rather better than forced marriages :P
But Dennison thinks Caroline didn't consider him even for a microsecond, and I'm with him there.
But what's not to love! I mean besides EVERYTHING
may have been someone made for Caroline in more ways than by eventually making her Queen.
Yeah... I mean, I don't think it's mutually exclusive for Caroline to be a) thinking in a practical way about George's strengths as a husband (and maybe being annoyed by his weaknesses) and maybe not being particularly head-over-heels for him, and b) being genuinely fond of him.
*Usual horror at the idea of living in the past, ESPECIALLY as a woman*
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.
Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach - I: Cinderella
Date: 2021-07-31 05:35 am (UTC)Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach - I: Cinderella
Date: 2021-07-31 01:54 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's plausible! Something similar may have been the case for Philip V's doting wives who exercised a fair (but debatable) amount of power.
*Usual horror at the idea of living in the past, ESPECIALLY as a woman*
In the famous words of G2 when Fritz proposed visiting: "NO NO NO DO NOT WANT."