Then there's the wine-pouring anecdote I had already shared, then a note that Christian VII became king:
Seldom was the dawn of any reign more auspicious than his: He was young, handsome, affable and generous, and the idol of the people. This event knocked the stage from under king Molckte, and the sovereign power was, for a short time, really exercised by him that wore the crown.
Then the editor has a footnote:
The machinations of this envious queen against the life of Christian the Seventh, did not cease with this attempt. She strove, by gold and promises of preferment, to seduce the attendants of the child: It happened, according to Latrobe's translation, as the king and royal family were taking the recreation of sailing in a royal yacht on the coast of Zealand, near the palace of Fredensborg, (about five Danish miles north of Copenhagen,) that the young prince Christian being rather unruly, one of his attendants named Broodorph, seized the boy, held him over the stern of the yacht, and threatened to throw him in the water: from the boy's struggles to get free, or from treachery, down he fell into the sea, whence he was rescued; but, as long as reason held its seat, the prince imputed this act to the agency of his fell step-mother, with a view to procure the crown for her beloved son Frederic. So far the anonymous author; and what in some respect corroborated this opinion, Broedorph being forbid to appear in the prince's presence, was im, mediately engaged in the service of the step queen, and placed as an officer in her palace. EDITOR.
Mirror mirror on the wall: Who's the evilest of them all? cont'd
Then there's the wine-pouring anecdote I had already shared, then a note that Christian VII became king:
Seldom was the dawn of any reign more auspicious than his: He was young, handsome, affable and generous, and the idol of the people. This event knocked the stage from under king Molckte, and the sovereign power was, for a short time, really exercised by him that wore the crown.
Then the editor has a footnote:
The machinations of this envious queen against the life of Christian the Seventh, did not cease with this attempt. She strove, by gold and promises of preferment, to seduce the attendants of the child: It happened, according to Latrobe's translation, as the king and royal family were taking the recreation of sailing in a royal yacht on the coast of Zealand, near the palace of Fredensborg, (about five Danish miles north of Copenhagen,) that the young prince Christian being rather unruly, one of his attendants named Broodorph, seized the boy, held him over the stern of the yacht, and threatened to throw him in the water: from the boy's struggles to get free, or from treachery, down he fell into the sea, whence he was rescued; but, as long as reason held its seat, the prince imputed this act to the agency of his fell step-mother, with a view to procure the crown for her beloved son Frederic. So far the anonymous author; and what in some respect corroborated this opinion, Broedorph being forbid to appear in the prince's presence, was im, mediately engaged in the service of the step queen, and placed as an officer in her palace. EDITOR.