Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court

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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;

 

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