Congrats on solving this mystery, Detective Mildred! Dennison seemed so solid otherwise that this one big slip-up really was befuddling.
For a moment, I wondered whether the change from Anne to Amelia was because she‘d suffered from small pox in between and had been left with very noticable facial scars, but a) looking up the date, Anne had small pox in 1720 already - Caroline joined Lady Mary‘s campaign and.had her younger children inocculated two years later -, and b) Wilhelmine had contracted small pox in the late 1720s, and surely if FW had said he wanted a younger princess for his oldest because of the small pox scarring, G2 would have retaliated by wanting a younger princess as well? (Especially since he actually wasn‘t in a hurry to get Fritz of Wales married and procreating, due to his hate-on for his oldest and dreaming of Cumberland as successor.)
Considering Anne famously said about her 1734 husband, yet another William of Orange, that she‘d marry him even if he looked like a babboon, because she really really REALLY wanted to get married (and he was the last Protestant prince available), I doubt she was thrilled to get dropped from the Prussian marriage project. I wonder whose idea the switch of princesses was?
Re: Double marriage: Anne vs. Amelia
For a moment, I wondered whether the change from Anne to Amelia was because she‘d suffered from small pox in between and had been left with very noticable facial scars, but a) looking up the date, Anne had small pox in 1720 already - Caroline joined Lady Mary‘s campaign and.had her younger children inocculated two years later -, and b) Wilhelmine had contracted small pox in the late 1720s, and surely if FW had said he wanted a younger princess for his oldest because of the small pox scarring, G2 would have retaliated by wanting a younger princess as well? (Especially since he actually wasn‘t in a hurry to get Fritz of Wales married and procreating, due to his hate-on for his oldest and dreaming of Cumberland as successor.)
Considering Anne famously said about her 1734 husband, yet another William of Orange, that she‘d marry him even if he looked like a babboon, because she really really REALLY wanted to get married (and he was the last Protestant prince available), I doubt she was thrilled to get dropped from the Prussian marriage project. I wonder whose idea the switch of princesses was?