This is like Greatest Hits of Gossipy Sensationalism! :D <3
Okay, I... kinda want some of these quotes from G2 telling BFF Caroline about his mistress. Are they in the Dennison book? I do mean to read that one of these days, so if they are, that will definitely be an additional incentive!
No, the quotes are minmal and in fact based on Hervey's memoirs - i.e. what Hervey says he wrote. The passage in Dennison's book goes:
From Hanover in the summer of 1735, in a torrent of letters of forensic detail, George Augustus shared with Caroline the progress of his nascent affair with this 'young married woman of the first fashion '. He praised Amalie's face while denying her beauty or wit. 'Had the Queen been a painter ,' Hervey commented,' she might have drawn her rival's picture at six hundred miles distance.'
And that's it. Since it's a paraphrased passage from Hervey's Memoirs, I suspect the original letter(s) might no longer exist.
Ludwig writing in Wagner Opera speak both in rl and ventriloquized in the novel truly was quite...something (and sometimes touching, as when he writes to the young doctor "Du bist der Lenz" (you know, Sieglinde to Siegmund from Valkyrie), but I'm tickled about Mildred's tale of someone not Ludwig II. trying this in rl! Noble steed indeed. :)
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Re: Extraordinary documents by monarchs, you say?
Date: 2021-08-19 04:27 am (UTC)Okay, I... kinda want some of these quotes from G2 telling BFF Caroline about his mistress. Are they in the Dennison book? I do mean to read that one of these days, so if they are, that will definitely be an additional incentive!
AHAHAHA Wagner-opera-speak! Oh, lol, that's hilarious.
Re: Extraordinary documents by monarchs, you say?
Date: 2021-08-19 05:35 am (UTC)From Hanover in the summer of 1735, in a torrent of letters of forensic detail, George Augustus shared with Caroline the progress of his nascent affair with this 'young married woman of the first
fashion '. He praised Amalie's face while denying her beauty or wit. 'Had the Queen been a painter ,' Hervey commented,' she might have drawn her rival's picture at six hundred miles distance.'
And that's it. Since it's a paraphrased passage from Hervey's Memoirs, I suspect the original letter(s) might no longer exist.
Ludwig writing in Wagner Opera speak both in rl and ventriloquized in the novel truly was quite...something (and sometimes touching, as when he writes to the young doctor "Du bist der Lenz" (you know, Sieglinde to Siegmund from Valkyrie), but I'm tickled about Mildred's tale of someone not Ludwig II. trying this in rl! Noble steed indeed. :)