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Notes

1. A Portrait

1
. Many reputable historians of the Georgian era, such as J. H. Plumb, have perpetuated the erroneous theory that Melusine’s primary motivation was greed.

2
. Louis XV of France to Count Broglio, 18 July 1724. Quoted in Coxe,
Walpole
, vol. II, p. 304.

2. The Mermaid and the Girl

1
. The castle did not survive the bombings of the Second World War.

2
. Schmidt,
Das Geschlecht von der Schulenburg
.

3
. Schmidt, vol 2.3, p. 418.

4
. Friedrich Wilhelm was found a position first as Kammerjunker, then Kammerherr to George.

5
. Danneil,
Das Geschlecht von der Schulenburg
.

3. Venice of the North

1
. Redman,
The House of Hanover
, p. 16.

2
. Davies,
History of Europe
, p. 568.

3
. ibid.

4
. Quoted in Uglow,
Gambling Man
, p. 91.

5
. When Duke George moved his capital to Hanover in 1636, the Duchy of Calenberg-Göttingen became unofficially known as the Duchy of Hanover.

6
. Hatton,
George I
, p. 24.

7
. Sophia,
Memoiren der Herzogin Sophie
, ed. Köcher, p. 90.

8
. ibid., p. 90.

9
. ibid.

10
. ibid., p. 91.

11
. Liselotte,
A Woman’s Life
, trans. Forster, p. 249.

12
. Komachi and Queren,
Herrenhausen Gardens
, ed. Clark and von Bothmer, trans. Will, p. 38.