Ha, at this point I clearly need to search salon posts before asking any questions, because I feel like there's this thing where I didn't know enough to appreciate what you were saying at the time, and now I do but I've forgotten that you said it :P <3
(and love letters summarized read dull "He says her beauty is beyond compare. She expresses regret about not being with him" etc)
Hee. I suppose the summary of most love letters is probably pretty boring. It's too bad there aren't more quotes though!
Horowski's favourite anecdote about Königsmarck is him building a card house to amuse little SD the younger, age 6, and Grumbkow's future wife (also a courtier's kid the same age) at a party, which we know because both he and their confidant lady in waiting mention it to SD the older in a subsequent letter.
Aw, that's super cute <3
As Horowski points out, one reason for this was simply that since G1 had no official Queen (poor SD the older!), and came already endowed with a mistress, this left no influential court office for the female nobles, and the male nobles, too, had to put up with a lot of Hannover folk. Hence the bitching.
Heeee. IDK, I just find it super amusing that the female nobles are all "rats, he already has mistress, no job for us I guess."
(remember, also the complaints about German mistresses were one big reason why future G2 as part of his and Caroline's campaign to make themselves popular with their future suspects and be unlike Dad took an English mistress, despite not having much interest in her.)
Re: Königsmarck and Hannovers
(and love letters summarized read dull "He says her beauty is beyond compare. She expresses regret about not being with him" etc)
Hee. I suppose the summary of most love letters is probably pretty boring. It's too bad there aren't more quotes though!
Horowski's favourite anecdote about Königsmarck is him building a card house to amuse little SD the younger, age 6, and Grumbkow's future wife (also a courtier's kid the same age) at a party, which we know because both he and their confidant lady in waiting mention it to SD the older in a subsequent letter.
Aw, that's super cute <3
As Horowski points out, one reason for this was simply that since G1 had no official Queen (poor SD the older!), and came already endowed with a mistress, this left no influential court office for the female nobles, and the male nobles, too, had to put up with a lot of Hannover folk. Hence the bitching.
Heeee. IDK, I just find it super amusing that the female nobles are all "rats, he already has mistress, no job for us I guess."
(remember, also the complaints about German mistresses were one big reason why future G2 as part of his and Caroline's campaign to make themselves popular with their future suspects and be unlike Dad took an English mistress, despite not having much interest in her.)
Oh right! Oh G2.