by Lucy Worsley
illness and final days, 1, 2, 3, 4;
impact of her death, 1, 2, 3;
and newborn granddaughter, 1, 2;
paranoia over provision of heir, 1;
political power, 1;
and Princess Augusta, 1, 2;
problems with gout and obesity, 1;
reputation in history, 1;
reunited with daughters at Kensington, 1;
reunited in death with George II, 1;
routines at Kensington, 1, 2;
support for inoculation against smallpox, 1, 2;
toleration of King’s mistresses, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
twilight occupations, 1;
vigil over body and subsequent funeral, 1
Caroline, Princess (daughter of Prince and Princess of Wales), 1, 2, 3, 4
Catholics, and succession to throne, 1, 2, 3
Celle, 1, 2
Charing Cross, Royal Mews, 1
Charles II, King, 1, 2, 3
Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender), 1, 2
Charlotte of Denmark, Princess, 1
Charlotte Sophia, Queen, 1, 2
Cherokees, 1
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th
Earl of: on court life and etiquette, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
fall from royal favour, 1;
on George I’s taste in women, 1, 2;
on Londoners’ appetite for gossip, 1;
and marriage to illegitimate daughter of George I, 1;
opinion of women, 1;
poem about Molly Lepell, 1;
view on drinking, 1;
view on taking mistresses, 1
Chiffinch, William, 1
Chudleigh, Elizabeth, 1, 2
Clarke, Dr Alured, 1, 2
Clavering, Mrs (dresser), 1
Clayton, Charlotte, 1
Clerece, Robert, 1, 2
clothes: fashionable attire in London, 1, 2;
King’s and Queen’s at drawing-room receptions, 1;
male courtiers, 1, 2;
mantua, 1, 2, 3;
mourning, 1;
Peter the Wild Boy’s struggles with, 1;
Queen Caroline, 1, 2;
young princesses’ winter wear, 1
Coke, Thomas, 1, 2, 3
Company of Barber-Surgeons, 1
Constantinople, 1
contraception, 1
cosmetics, 1
court etiquette, 1, 2;
George II’s rigid attachment to, 1;
grand dinners, 1;
on marriage of lady servants, 1;
nuances of role between Lady and Woman of Bedchamber, 1;
right of entry into drawing room, 1
Court Tales: Or, A History of the Amours of the Present Nobility, 1
Covent Garden, 1, 2
Cowper, Mary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Craftsman, The, 1
Culloden, 1
Cumberland, Duke of see William Augustus, Prince
Cuyler, Margaret, 1
Defoe, Daniel, 1, 2, 3, 4
Delden, 1
Deloraine, Henry Scott, 1st Earl of, 1, 2
Deloraine, Mary Howard, Lady, 1, 2, 3;
attractive appearance, 1;
background and first marriage, 1;
birth of stillborn son, 1, 2;
fall from grace and subsequent decline, 1, 2;
and fracas at card table, 1;
as governess to younger princesses, 1, 2, 3, 4;
marriage to William Wyndham, 1;
as mistress to George II, 1;
reputation and ruthless ambition, 1;
rivalry with Amalie von Wallmoden, 1, 2, 3, 4
Dettingen, Battle of (1743), 1, 2
Dorchester, Lady, 1
Dorset, 1, 2
Dryden, John, 1
Duck, Stephen (Thresher Poet), 1
Edgeworth, Maria, 1
Edward, Duke of Kent, 1
Egmont, Lord, 1, 2
Elitz, Madamed’, 1
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, 1
Enlightenment, 1
Evelyn, Sir John, 1
Falmouth, Viscountess, 1
family: importance to George III, 1;
rise of bourgeois values, 1
fans, language of, 1
Fenn, Farmer (of Berkhamsted), 1
Fielding, Henry, 1, 2
Flitcroft, Henry, 1
Fontaine, Sir Andrew, 1
food and drink, 1, 2
Fox, Henry, 1, 2
Fox, Stephen (‘Ste’), 1, 2, 3, 4
France, 1, 2, 3
Frederick, Prince: and Anne Vane, 1;
appearance and charm as young boy, 1;
arrival in London from Hanover, 1;
background and childhood, 1;
close relationship with grandfather, George I, 1;
concerns during mother’s illness, 1;
death, 1, 2;
divided opinion on, 1;
early friendship with John Hervey, 1, 2;
efforts to obtain higher allowance, 1;
expulsion from St James’s Palace, 1;
feud with father, George II, 1, 2, 3;
inoculated against smallpox, 1;
John Hervey’s later hatred of, 1, 2;
loss of reputation after rash act against parents, 1;
provocative actions at onset of Augusta’s labour, 1, 2;
relationship with mother, Queen Caroline, 1, 2, 3, 4;
residence at Kensington Palace, 1;
as royal representative in Hanover, 1, 2;
violoncello concerts at Kensington, 1;
wedding to Princess Augusta, 1, 2;
as wonderful father, 1
Gay, John: friendship with Henrietta Howard, 1, 2, 3, 4;
poetic comments on court life, 1, 2, 3;
political plays, 1;
on Princess Caroline’s Protestantism, 1;
pursuit of position at court, 1, 2, 3
Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, 1, 2, 3
George I, King: and absence of wife from court, 1, 2;
adoption of Peter the ‘Wild Boy’, 1;
attitude towards Princess Caroline, 1;
attraction to Molly Lepell, 1, 2;
character and reputation, 1, 2, 3;
and christening of new grandson, 1, 2;
close relationship with grandson, Prince Frederick, 1;
companionship of mistresses, 1;
coronation feast, 1;
expulsion of Prince and Princess of Wales from family home, 1;
German lady companions, 1, 2;
hostile relationship with son, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and language problems at court, 1, 2;
last journey to Hanover, illness and death, 1;
and mistress, Melusine, 1, 2;
official reconciliation with Prince and Princess of Wales, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
old age and declining health, 1;
Parliament’s placing of restrictions on, 1;
physical appearance, 1, 2;
reaction to death of estranged wife, 1;
reasons for inheritance of throne, 1, 2, 3;
and redecoration of Kensington Palace, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
reputation in history, 1;
secret problem of haemorrhoids, 1;
and Turkish servants, 1;
use of back-stairs in Kensington Palace, 1;
will suppressed by George II, 1
George Augustus, Prince of Wales (later George II): appearance and character, 1, 2, 3;
claim of Englishness, 1;
courtship of Caroline of Ansbach, 1;
and death of father, 1;
and death of mother, 1;
desire for closer family life, 1;
expulsion from St James’s Palace, 1;
and Hanoverian succession to British throne, 1, 2;
health problems, 1;
and Henry Scott, Earl of Deloraine, 1;
high price paid for stand against King, 1;
hostile r
elationship with father, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
and important party at St James’s Palace, 1, 2, 3, 4;
military prowess, 1;
and mistress, Henrietta Howard, 1, 2, 3, 4;
official reconciliation with father, 1, 2, 3;
separated from his children by the King, 1, 2, 3;
spat with Duke of Newcastle at son’s christening, 1, 2;
and tragic fate of mother, 1;
see also George II, King
George II, King: caricatured by John Hervey, 1;
changes in character wrought by kingship, 1;
concern for Caroline from onset of her illness, 1, 2, 3;
coronation, 1;
coronation feast, 1;
devotion and frequent trips to Hanover, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
dressing ceremonies, 1;
feelings about death of mother and father, 1;
feud with son, Prince Frederick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
first encounter with Elizabeth Chudleigh, 1;
food preferences and public dining, 1;
fury at missing birth of grandchild, 1, 2, 3;
George III’s reaction against, 1;
ghost, 1;
grief after Queen’s death, 1, 2, 3, 4;
habits and character in old age, 1, 2;
initial wooing of Caroline, 1;
and Lady Deloraine, 1, 2;
last morning and death, 1;
leading of troops on Dettingen battlefield, 1, 2;
love for Amalie von Wallmoden, 1, 2;
mourning, funeral and burial, 1;
need for mistresses, 1, 2, 3;
neglect of Caroline and resulting unpopularity, 1;
as old soldier at heart, 1, 2;
political influence and diligence in business, 1, 2;
made to Caroline on her deathbed, 1, 2;
and public questioning of royal extravagance, 1;
reaction to death of Prince Frederick, 1;
regrets over family quarrels, 1;
reputation in history, 1, 2;
reunited with daughters at Kensington, 1;
suffering caused by haemorrhoids, 1, 2, 3;
suppression of father’s will, 1;
treatment of Henrietta Howard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
treatment of his children, 1, 2, 3;
twilight occupations, 1;
victory over Young Pretender, 1;
and Walpole’s political intrigues, 1, 2;
weakening of heart, 1
George III, King, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
George IV, King, 1, 2
George, Prince (future George III), 1
George, Prince of Denmark, 1
George William (baby son of Prince and Princess of Wales), death at Kensington Palace, 1, 2
Georgia, America, 1
Germans, 1, 2, 3
Gibbons, Grinling, 1
Gibbs, James, 1
gin drinking, 1, 2
Glorious Revolution, 1
Göhrde, Hanover, 1
Görtz, Baron, 1, 2
Grafton, Charles Fitzroy (‘Booby’), second Duke of, 1, 2
Grantham, Lord, 1, 2
Groom of the Stool, 1, 2, 3
Grooms of the Bedchamber, 1, 2, 3
Gunnersbury House, Ealing, 1
hairdressing, 1
Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of, 1
Hamilton, Lady Archibald, 1, 2
Hamilton, Sir David, 1, 2
Hampton Court Palace, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Thornhill’s redecoration of Caroline’s apartment, 1
Handel, George Frederic, 1, 2, 3
Hanover: after departure of George I, 1;
after departure of Prince Frederick, 1;
background of George I, 1;
compromising of Britain’s position in Europe, 1;
discovery of Peter, the ‘Wild Boy’, 1;
George I’s last journey to, 1;
George I’s summer vacations, 1, 2, 3, 4;
George II’s extended visits, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Henrietta Howard’s fortunes, 1;
John Hervey’s early career moves, 1;
Prince Frederick as royal representative in, 1, 2;
proposal for separation from Britain, 1;
tragic story of Sophia, George I’s wife, 1, 2
Hanoverians: favoured style of Palladianism, 1;
love of German food, 1;
and succession to British throne, 1, 2, 3, 4;
unpopularity with the English, 1
Hapsburg Empire, 1
Hardwicke, Earl of, 1
Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, 1, 2
Henry VII, King of England, 1
Henry VIII, King of England, 1, 2
Herrenhausen, Hanover, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Hertford, Countess of, 1
Hervey, A. D., 1
Hervey, Augustus, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hervey, Carr, 1, 2
Hervey, John: affair with Anne Vane, 1;
background at court, 1;
close relationship with Queen Caroline, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
closeness to George II, 1, 2, 3, 4;
comments about George II’s mistresses, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
concern over Hanover’s interfering with British interests, 1;
death after unhappy later years, 1;
early trip to Hanover and friendship with Prince Frederick, 1;
on George II’s pursuit of women late in life, 1, 2, 3;
on hardships and dangers of court life, 1, 2, 3;
on Henrietta’s marriage to George Berkeley, 1;
homosexual relationships, 1, 2, 3;
later hatred of Prince Frederick, 1, 2, 3, 4;
loss of lover Stephen Fox, 1;
marriage to Molly Lepell, 1, 2, 3, 4;
memoirs, 1, 2, 3, 4;
observations on court life, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
odd appearance, 1;
Pope’s savage caricature of, 1;
Princess Caroline’s love for, 1;
quarrel and duel with William Pulteney, 1;
recording of events during Caroline’s illness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
resignation from post, 1;
view of Prince Frederick’s violoncello concerts, 1
Hervey, Molly (née Lepell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
children, 1, 2, 3, 4;
death and friends’ memories of, 1;
designing of new house, 1;
and failing marriage,1, 2;
flirtatiousness and arousal of men’s passions, 1, 2;
friendship with Henrietta Howard, 1, 2;
independent life in old age, 1, 2;
Jacobitism, 1, 2;
observation on Prince Frederick’s situation, 1;
sojourns in France, 1, 2;
see also Lepell, Molly
Hesse-Cassel, Prince of, 1
Hewett, Sir Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
HMS Victory, 1
Hoadley, Bishop, 1
Hobart, family (Norfolk), 1
Hogarth, William, 1, 2, 3, 4
Holy Roman Emperor, 1, 2
homosexuality, and John Hervey, 1
Hooper, William, 1
Horner, Elizabeth Strangeways, 1
House of Commons, 1, 2, 3, 4
Howard, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Howard, Henrietta (later Berkeley): accommodation in Kensington Palace, 1, 2;
appearance and character, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
at coronation of George II, 1;
as Bedchamber Woman to Princess Caroline, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
early life, marriage and career, 1;
final years and death, 1;
health problems, 1;
husband’s abusive treatment of, 1, 2, 3;
improved life fortunes with bequest from Earl of Suffolk, 1;