IDK, I just find it super amusing that the female nobles are all "rats, he already has mistress, no job for us I guess."
Well, to be fair: it was the additional problem to the main problem that there was no queen, which meant no ladies of the bedchamber and other offices in the queen's household traditionally given to the most prominent/valued female nobility. If one of them had been G1's mistress, this would have compensated somewhat, but the mistress job was also already taken. Now, Caroline as the new Princess of Wales made a point of dismissing all her German ladies except one and hiring English ladies for her personal household, which did help to make her popular, but "lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Wales" wasn't the same as "lady-in-waiting to the Queen", especially if the Prince of Wales and the King, as became rapidly apparant, had a mutual hate-on going on, which meant that if you positioned yourself in the household of the Waleses you ensured you and your family would have no influence on the King for the time being.
(Reminder: Caroline cultivating English ladies by hiring them included hiring Hervey's mother, Lady Bristol, who'd later become massively enstranged from her son, and Sarah Churchill, the late Queen Anne's ex-favourite, Duchess of Marlborough, who hadn't become any softer in her old age and called Caroline "Madame Ansbach", whereupon Caroline nicknamed the Churchills "The Imperial Family", which still amuses me.)
An anecdote to demonstrate how highly political being a lady of the bedchamber to the Queen was even a century later, when the royals had lost some more power and the PMs had gained it: when young Queen Victoria lost her first PM, Melbourne ("Lord M"), due to his party getting voted out of office, and Sir Robert Peel took over as PM, this also meant Victoria had to replace her ladies of the bedchamber (until then from Melbourne's party, the Whigs), with Tory ladies. She did not want to and refused, seeing it as her business who got to be in her personal household. The indignant Tories insisted. Melbourne ended up having to explain and soothe the young Queen until she accepted the Tory ladies.
Re: Königsmarck and Hannovers
Well, to be fair: it was the additional problem to the main problem that there was no queen, which meant no ladies of the bedchamber and other offices in the queen's household traditionally given to the most prominent/valued female nobility. If one of them had been G1's mistress, this would have compensated somewhat, but the mistress job was also already taken. Now, Caroline as the new Princess of Wales made a point of dismissing all her German ladies except one and hiring English ladies for her personal household, which did help to make her popular, but "lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Wales" wasn't the same as "lady-in-waiting to the Queen", especially if the Prince of Wales and the King, as became rapidly apparant, had a mutual hate-on going on, which meant that if you positioned yourself in the household of the Waleses you ensured you and your family would have no influence on the King for the time being.
(Reminder: Caroline cultivating English ladies by hiring them included hiring Hervey's mother, Lady Bristol, who'd later become massively enstranged from her son, and Sarah Churchill, the late Queen Anne's ex-favourite, Duchess of Marlborough, who hadn't become any softer in her old age and called Caroline "Madame Ansbach", whereupon Caroline nicknamed the Churchills "The Imperial Family", which still amuses me.)
An anecdote to demonstrate how highly political being a lady of the bedchamber to the Queen was even a century later, when the royals had lost some more power and the PMs had gained it: when young Queen Victoria lost her first PM, Melbourne ("Lord M"), due to his party getting voted out of office, and Sir Robert Peel took over as PM, this also meant Victoria had to replace her ladies of the bedchamber (until then from Melbourne's party, the Whigs), with Tory ladies. She did not want to and refused, seeing it as her business who got to be in her personal household. The indignant Tories insisted. Melbourne ended up having to explain and soothe the young Queen until she accepted the Tory ladies.