Authors: Claudia Gold
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
Degenfeld, Louise von
22
Delany, Mrs
83
Descartes, René
33
Destouches (diplomat)
225
Dryden, John
Annus Mirabilis
138
Dupplin, Lady
102
East India Company
214
Egmont, Lord
103
Electoral College
28
Elizabeth of Bohemia (wife of Frederick V)
20
,
21
,
197
Eltz, Philipp Adam
39
Emden castle
10
Emkendorf Castle
269
Enrico Leone
(opera)
35
–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
24
,
25
–7
and Carnival
31
–2
and courtesans
50
death
37
,
66
,
69
dukedom of Hanover passes to
28
marriage to Sophia
23
–4,
39
,
50
,
66
mistresses
52
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
217
Evening Post
147
‘Excellent New Ballad, An’
147
exclusion crisis (1679)
97
–8
Fabrice, Friedrich Ernst von
166
,
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 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)
27
,
36
,
37
,
49
Gallery, the (Hanover)
35
gambling
141
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
103
–4,
125
,
147
–8,
150
birth and childhood
27
–8
birthday celebrations
216
–17
break-down of marriage to Sophia Dorothea
45
–6,
49
,
54
,
55
bribery allegations at court of
166
–76
challenging of by the Pretender (James Stuart)
102
–3,
104
–5
character and attributes
40
,
51
,
74
,
188
condemnation of for treatment of Sophia Dorothea
63
–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
259
–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
215
,
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)
23
,
24
,
25
–6,
41
,
62
,
64
,
78
German Protestant Union
20
Germany
and Thirty Years War
21
Gibbs, James
138
Giusti, Tommaso
35
Glorious Revolution (1688)
38
,
95
Gloucester, William, Duke of
38
Göhrde, hunting lodge at
70
–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
104
Halifax, Lord (Charles Montagu)
176
–7
Hamilton, Duke of
200
Hamilton, Elizabeth Gerard, Duchess of
200
,
201
Hammerstein, Alexander von
80
,
206
Handel, George Frideric
85
,
142
,
143
–4,
203
Water Music
144
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, Robert
see
Oxford, Earl of
Harley, Thomas
228
Harling, Frederick von
204
Harling, Katharine von
249
Hatton, Ragnhild
51
,
77
,
128
,
190
,
206
,
214
,
215
Hattorf, Baron
154
Hawksmoor, Nicholas
138