:) I can see that! BTW, Mary, like her younger sister Anne with Sarah Churchill, had a (female) childhood friend she was passionately attached to, Frances Apsley. Quoting wiki: From about the age of nine until her marriage, Mary wrote passionate letters to an older girl, Frances Apsley, the daughter of courtier Sir Allen Apsley. Mary signed herself 'Mary Clorine'; Apsley was 'Aurelia'. In time, Frances became uncomfortable with the correspondence, and replied more formally.
(Sister Anne and Sarah Jennings, the later Sarah Churchill, wrote to each other as Mrs. Morley (Anne) and Mrs. Freeman (Sarah), respectively.)
A case thus could be made that James the ultra Catholic managed to produce not one but two bi daughters, though of course that's speculative.
(FW: I would say I sympathize except I don't. Firstly, thankfully I died before learning I had not one, but two wretched sons, and secondly, I don't sympathize with goddam Papists. No Popery! P.S. I still think you should have made me your heir, William.)
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(Sister Anne and Sarah Jennings, the later Sarah Churchill, wrote to each other as Mrs. Morley (Anne) and Mrs. Freeman (Sarah), respectively.)
A case thus could be made that James the ultra Catholic managed to produce not one but two bi daughters, though of course that's speculative.
(FW: I would say I sympathize except I don't. Firstly, thankfully I died before learning I had not one, but two wretched sons, and secondly, I don't sympathize with goddam Papists. No Popery! P.S. I still think you should have made me your heir, William.)