The King's Mistress: The True & Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I (39 page)

Damaideno, Abbot Theodoro
34

Dawes, Sir William
263

Daye, Carey
106

de la Fosse, Rémy
71

Defoe, Daniel
97
,
110

Degenfeld, Louise von
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Delany, Mrs
83

Descartes, René
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Destouches (diplomat)
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Dryden, John

Annus Mirabilis
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Dupplin, Lady
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East India Company
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Egmont, Lord
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Electoral College
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Elizabeth of Bohemia (wife of Frederick V)
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,
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,
197

Eltz, Philipp Adam
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Emden castle
10

Emkendorf Castle
269

Enrico Leone
(opera)
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–6

Ernst August, Elector of Hanover (father of George I)

affair with Klara von Platen
35
,
42
–3,
66

attempt to secure the Hanoverian claim to electoral cap
28
–9,
33
–4,
35
,
36

and brother’s anti-contract of marriage
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,
25
–7

and Carnival
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–2

and courtesans
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death
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,
66
,
69

dukedom of Hanover passes to
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marriage to Sophia
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–4,
39
,
50
,
66

mistresses
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opposition to daughter-in law’s affair with Königsmarck and ordering of murder of
59
–60,
66

plot against by son (Maximilian)
37

primogeniture announcement and split within family over
36
–7

Ernst August (brother of George I)
27
,
72
,
76
–7,
88
,
218
,
268

Etough, Reverend Henry
237
–40,
262
–3

Eusden, Reverend Laurence
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Evening Post
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‘Excellent New Ballad, An’
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exclusion crisis (1679)
97
–8

Fabrice, Friedrich Ernst von
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,
237

fairs (London)
140
–1

fashion
81
–4

Figuelotte
see
Sophia Charlotte (sister of George I)

Flitcroft, Henry
138

Forster, Thomas
104

France peace treaty with England (1713)
99

Frederick the Great
32
–3,
255

Frederick Louis (son of George II)
78
,
156
,
199
,
255

Frederick V, Elector Palatine
20
–1

Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia
78

Friedrich August (brother of George I)
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,
36
,
37
,
49

Gallery, the (Hanover)
35

gambling
141

Gay, John
97
,
121
,
143

The Beggar’s Opera
143

Gemmingen, Madame
203

Georg August (future George II)
44
,
77
,
78
,
131
,
245
–6

acrimony between and rupture with father
64
–5,
77
,
179
,
183
,
187
–206

anger at father’s dismissal of Argyll
191
–2

coronation
269

and death of son
205

devotion to mother
188
–9

expulsion from palace and separation from children
153
,
183
,
187
,
196
–7,
205

marriage to Caroline of Ansbach
78

reconciliation with father
206
–7

relationship with Melusine
193
,
271

relationship with own children
156
,
187

setting up of rival court in Leicester Square
117
–18,
183
,
197

George August (uncle to George I)
80
–1

George of Denmark, Prince
40
–1

George I, King
19

acrimony and rupture between son and
64
–5,
77
,
179
,
183
,
187
–206

alleged incestuous affair with half-sister
87
–8,
127
–8,
130

anti-Hanoverian ballads and pamphlets against
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–4,
125
,
147
–8,
150

birth and childhood
27
–8

birthday celebrations
216
–17

break-down of marriage to Sophia Dorothea
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–6,
49
,
54
,
55

bribery allegations at court of
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–76

challenging of by the Pretender (James Stuart)
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–3,
104
–5

character and attributes
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,
51
,
74
,
188

condemnation of for treatment of Sophia Dorothea
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–4

conflict with brothers over primogeniture
37
–8,
64
,
187

contesting of accession to the British throne
101
–2

coronation
102

court of
111
,
112
–15,
119
–21

daily routine
119

death
268

and death of sister (Figuelotte)
80
,
115
–16

dismissal of Argyle
191
–2

divorce from Sophia Dorothea and ordering of her incarceration
4
–5,
63
–4,
188

as Elector of Hanover
71
–2,
74
–6,
81
,
163

enforced sociability at court due to rupture with son
194
,
195
,
197
–8

expulsion of son from palace and orders separation of children
153
,
183
,
187
,
196
–7,
205

faction and discontent within first

English ministry
176
–8

as father to illegitimate daughters
72
,
79
,
132
–3

flirtations and fondness of women
125
–8

grooming to be future king
39
–40

ill-health
193
–4,
197
,
255

influence of ‘German cabal’ on
163
,
164
–6

love of opera and theatre
142
85

marriage to Melusine rumours
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–64

marriage to Sophia Dorothea
41
–2,
43
–4,
53

military campaigns
45

mother’s love for
27
,
28

movement between seasonal residences
118

and parliament
97

preferring intimacy of family life over court life
112
–15,
117

proclamation as king of England
90
–1

reconciliation with son
202
,
206
–8

refusal to accept paternity of illegitimate children
53
–4,
72

and rehabilitation of Bolingbroke
237
,
238
–41

relationship with half-sister (Sophia Charlotte)
43
,
131
,
132

relationship with Melusine
4
,
50
,
53
,
65
,
80
,
81
,
84
,
86
–7,
163
,
248
,
260
–1

relationship with Sophie Karoline
251

relationship with Walpole
241

renovation of Göhrde
71

representation of by historians
50
–1

return visits to Hanover whilst king of England
91
,
178
,
190
,
249

romantic attachments before marriage
42
–3

rumours of sexual rapacity of
125
–9

and South Sea Bubble
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,
218
–19,
220

and Stanhope’s death
227
–8

takes up residence at St James’s Palace
100

and Turkish servants
115
–17

and upbringing of son
190
–1

use of British resources in Hanoverian matters
178
–9

and Whigs
100
–1,
105
–6

and wife’s affair with Königsmarck
5
,
62
,
63
–4

will
171

George II, King
see
Georg August

George William of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke (brother of Ernst August)
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,
24
,
25
–6,
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,
62
,
64
,
78

German Protestant Union
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Germany

and Thirty Years War
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Gibbs, James
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Giusti, Tommaso
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Glorious Revolution (1688)
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,
95

Gloucester, William, Duke of
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Göhrde, hunting lodge at
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–1

Görtz, Friedrich Wilhelm von
40
,
106
,
165
,
168

Grand Alliance
99

Great Fire of London (1666)
138

Great Northern War
76

Grote, Otto
40

Guildford, Lord
225

Gwynn, J.
110

Habeas Corpus, suspension of
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Halifax, Lord (Charles Montagu)
176
–7

Hamilton, Duke of
200

Hamilton, Elizabeth Gerard, Duchess of
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,
201

Hammerstein, Alexander von
80
,
206

Hampton Court
118
,
154
–6,
197
–9

Handel, George Frideric
85
,
142
,
143
–4,
203

Water Music
144

Hanover
17
–19,
73

admission to Electoral College (1708)
61

as ally of the Grand Alliance
99

and Carnival
31
–2,
36

claim to electoral cap
29
,
35
,
36

court at
18
–19,
73
–4

courtesans at court
49
–50

electoral cap conferred on House of (1693)
39
,
61

enhancing glory of through architecture and portraiture
34

establishing of primogeniture (1683)
36

fashion
81
–4

Gallery
35

genealogy of House of
33
–4

and Herrenhausen
18
,
29
–31,
70
,
158

illegitimacy in
43

and Leineschloss
18
,
28
,
29
,
34

opera
35
–6

population
81

unification with Celle
62
,
81

Hardenberg, Christian Ulrich von
252
–4

Harley, Abigail
102

Harley, Edward
216
,
224
,
260

Harley, Robert
see
Oxford, Earl of

Harley, Thomas
228

Harling, Frederick von
204

Harling, Katharine von
249

Hatton, Ragnhild
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,
77
,
128
,
190
,
206
,
214
,
215

Hattorf, Baron
154

Hawksmoor, Nicholas
138