Authors: Claudia Gold
The King's Mistress: The True & Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I (40 page)
Hayter, Thomas
263
Henry VIII, King
154
–5
Herrenhausen (Hanover)
18
,
29
–31,
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,
158
Hervey, Lord John
118
,
130
,
199
,
275
Hillsborough, Lord
229
Historia Domus
33
–4
Hogarth, William
Southwark Fair
140
–1
Holy Roman Empire
18
Howard, Henrietta
see
Suffolk, Countess of
Hugo, Ludolf
40
Hussey, Christopher
159
Hyde, Anne
98
Irby, Sir William
163
–4
Irish copper coinage patent scandal
233
–4
Irwine, Lady
226
Jacobite rebellions
61
,
103
–5,
142
,
235
–6
James, John
138
James Stuart (Pretender)
99
,
101
,
102
–3,
104
–5,
199
–200,
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Jardine, Lisa
155
Jews
96
Joanne Sophie
see
Schaumburg-Lippe, Countess of
Johann, Adolf
23
Johann Friedrich, Duke
24
,
25
,
28
,
29
Karl Ludwig (uncle to George I)
21
–2,
23
,
25
,
70
Karl Philipp (brother of George I)
27
,
37
,
44
,
49
Kensington Palace
116
,
118
,
156
–60,
197
,
202
Kielmansegg, Johann Adolf von
88
,
166
,
170
,
171
,
197
King’s Theatre (London)
142
,
144
Kinnoull, Abigail, Countess of
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Knesebeck, Eleonore von dem
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,
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,
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,
61
,
63
,
65
Königsmarck, Hans Christoff von
55
–6
Königsmarck, Count Philipp von
66
,
77
,
201
affair with Sophia Dorothea
4
–5,
51
,
55
–60,
77
background
55
–6
murder of
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,
61
–2,
65
Königstreu, Mehemet von
71
,
115
–16,
154
,
194
,
267
–8
Leathes, William
226
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
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,
30
,
33
–5,
74
,
76
Leicester House
153
Leineschloss (Hanover)
18
,
28
,
29
,
34
Leinster, Duke of
119
Lepell, Molly
125
Licensing Act
147
Liselotte (Elizabeth Charlotte) (daughter of Karl Ludwig)
21
,
25
,
27
–8,
52
,
62
,
102
,
103
–4,
133
–4,
197
,
200
–1,
204
,
260
architecture
138
building activity
139
coffee and chocolate houses
145
–7
fairs
140
–1
gambling
141
Great Fire of (1666)
138
as important commercial centre
96
life on streets of
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opera
142
–3,
144
–5
population
137
theatres
141
–2
London Bridge
139
London Stock Exchange
146
Louis XIV, King of France
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,
34
,
39
,
69
,
95
,
99
,
102
,
104
,
193
,
259
Louis XV, King of France
4
Louise, abbess of Maubuisson
20
Louise (daughter of Melusine)
see
Schulenburg, Anna Louise von der
Lubomirska, Princess Ursula Katherina
81
Macaulay
146
–7
Macclesfield, Lord
73
Macknight, Thomas
238
Macky, John
105
–6
Madonetto, Pierre
32
Mahaffey, Kathleen
172
Maintenon, Madame de
69
,
236
,
259
mantua
82
Mar, Earl of
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–5
Marlborough, Duke of
95
,
99
,
177
,
178
,
191
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of
111
,
126
,
153
,
167
,
183
Marriage Act (1754)
264
Masham, Abigail
111
masks
wearing of at Hanover court
83
–4
Mauro, Hortensio
36
Maximilian Wilhelm (Max) (brother of George I)
27
,
36
–8,
44
,
59
Mecklenburg
179
Mehemet
see
Königstreu, Mehemet von
Melusina story
9
Melusine
see
Schulenburg, Ehrengard Melusine von der
Melusine (daughter of Melusine)
see
Schulenburg, Petronella
Melusine von Mencken, Otto
60
,
62
Methuen, Paul
129
Meysenbug, Maria Katherine von
42
–3,
50
Mississippi Scheme (1720) (France)
212
,
215
,
218
,
221
Mistra, Mustapha de
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,
115
–16,
154
Molesworth, Lord
223
–4
Moltke, Joachim and Otto Friedrich von
37
Montagu, Charles
see
Halifax, Lord
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
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,
171
,
172
,
181
–2,
188
,
259
Montalbano, Nicolò
60
Morning Chronicle
175
–6
Mustapha
see
Mistra, Mustapha de
Navius, Accius
34
Newcastle, Duke of
196
Newgate prison
141
Newton, Sir Isaac
234
Nicolson, William (Bishop of Carlisle)
203
Nottingham, Earl of
101
,
105
,
177
Oates, Titus
98
Oeynhausen, Margarethe Gertrud von (Trudchen)
see
Schaumberg-Lippe, Margarethe Gertrud
Oeynhausen, Rabe Christoph von
12
,
73
Oeynhausen, Sophie Juliane von (sister of Melusine)
10
–12,
73
Onslow, Arthur
195
opera
and Handel
143
–4
Hanover
35
–6
London
142
–3,
144
–5
Ormond, Duchess of
214
Oudernarde, Battle of (1708)
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Oxford, Earl of (Robert Harley)
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Paleotti, Marchesa
52
Palm, Karl Josef von
246
Peerage Bill
207
Perrault, Charles
51
Peter the Great
35
Peter the Wild Boy
116
Philippeaux, Henri (comte St Florentin)
250
Platen, Ernst August von
248
Platen, Franz Ernst von
42
Platen, Klara von (mistress of Ernst August)
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,
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,
42
–3,
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,
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,
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Platen, Sophia Charlotte von (illegitimate sister of George I)
3
,
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,
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alleged incestuous affair with George
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–8,
127
–8,
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antipathy between Melusine and
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,
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,
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–1,
251
appearance
127
–8
bribery allegations
171
character
89
,
130
,
172
court rumours over lovers
129
–30
creation of discord
88
death
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and death of husband
197
finances
171
lodgings at St James’s
153
–4
lottery win
141
,
171
marriage
88
popularity
171
–2
relationship with Caroline of Ansbach
88
,
251
relationship with George
43
,
131
,
132
and South Sea Bubble
215
,
225
titles bestowed on to by George
131
vilification of by Pope
174
–5
Platen, Sophie Karoline von
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,
248
–51
Plumb, J.H.
191
Pope, Alexander
172
–4
‘Artemisia’
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–5
Moral Essays
116
‘Phryne’
172
–4
on South Sea Bubble
213
Popish Plot
98
Portland, Jane, Countess of
202
–3,
204
Pozobueno (Spanish ambassador)
246
Pretender
see
James Stuart (Pretender)
Prussia
78
Ralph, James
110
Redman, Alvin
19
Reynolds, Joshua
275
Ribeiro, Aileen
82
Riva, Giuseppe
145
Robartes, Lady Essex
165
Royal Academy of Music
142
–3
Rupert, Prince
22
St James’s Palace
109
–10,
120
,
153
–4,
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fire (1723)
154
St James’s Park
110
–11
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
see
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of
Saussure, César de
119
–21,
126
,
127
,
151
,
154
,
156
–7
Schaumberg-Lippe, Margarethe Gertrud (Trudchen) (daughter of Melusine)
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,
85
,
109
,
132
–3,
176
,
201
–2,
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–6,
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,
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Schaumburg-Lippe, Albrecht Wolfgang zu (son of Joanne Sophie)
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,
176
,
202
,
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Schaumburg-Lippe, George Augustus zu (son of Trudchen)
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Schaumburg-Lippe, Joanne Sophie, Countess of
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–8,
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,
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,
132
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Schaumburg-Lippe, William zu (son of Trudchen)
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Schnath, George
62
Schulenburg, Anna Elisabeth von der(née von Stammer) (stepmother)
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