Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

[cahn]

Unfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.

(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )

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Re: Danish archives

[mildred_of_midgard]

So of course it has led me to wonder whether these Bagges were related, and if so, how many degrees of separation I am from those Jacobite refugees!

Oh, interesting! Do you have an Ancestry.com account?

Re: Jacobite material, I do really wish that some of the women involved in the ’45 had written memoirs! Margaret Ogilvy, for example. I wonder if there might be unpublished material by female Jacobites in archives somewhere…

There might be! But if they're in British archives, your future self's hands-on experience in reading rooms will come in handy, because British archives *also* charge you an arm and a leg, in my experience.

If you make a list of these women and which, if any of them, ended up in exile abroad, I'll keep an eye out!