18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: Earl of Mar

[luzula]

Interesting, thanks! Yeah, Scots noblemen were in general much poorer than English ones. Tory + Presbyterian seems an unusual combination.

And interesting about the hedging of bets...I mean, the Whigs had been making up to George-I-to-be for a while, since they were so shut out during Anne's reign (and would soon shut the Tories out in their turn), so they must've been pretty sure of coming into power so long as George I got on the throne. But yeah, there might be a rebellion, which of course there was.

Poor Frances, anyway. : (