The love of an uncrowned queen, Sophie Dorothea, consort of George 1., and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, count Königsmarck (now first published from the originals) by . history of Sophie Dorothea made him desirousof adding her to his list, and he deliberately exaggerated apassing acquaintance to suit his purpose. The truth seemsto be this. Sophie Dorothea was flattered by the homage ofthe brilliant Frenchman. She may perhaps have coquettedwith him a little after the fashion of the time—that is tosay, she may have listened to his pretty speeches andlaughed at his sallie
The love of an uncrowned queen, Sophie Dorothea, consort of George 1., and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, count Königsmarck (now first published from the originals) by . history of Sophie Dorothea made him desirousof adding her to his list, and he deliberately exaggerated apassing acquaintance to suit his purpose. The truth seemsto be this. Sophie Dorothea was flattered by the homage ofthe brilliant Frenchman. She may perhaps have coquettedwith him a little after the fashion of the time—that is tosay, she may have listened to his pretty speeches andlaughed at his sallies. But when she saw he was likely toput a false construction upon her amiability, and take ad-vantage of her good nature, she nipped the acquaintance inthe bud and dismissed him abruptly. Lassaye, with all thepettiness of a small mind, cherished against the Princess agrudge for the blow she had inflicted upon his vanity, andrevenged himself by composing bogus letters. After a few months in Italy, Sophie Dorothea returnedto Hanover, and settled down again to her routine March i6, 1687, she gave birth to a daughter, whowas christened Sophie Dorothea, after her mother, and who. I. THE ALTE PALAIS, HANOVER. From a photograph by the Author. i THE POWER OF COUNTESS PLATEN 75 in years to come, married her cousin, the King of Prussia,and became mother of Frederick the Great. It would seem that the birth of a daughter instead of ason was in some sense a disappointment to the ducal familyof Hanover, though why poor Sophie Dorothea should beblamed it is not easy to see. The event did not tend toincrease her prestige, as the birth of George Augustus haddone ; and her husband, who was now home again, becamemore indifferent and colder than ever. In these twochildren, for she bore no more, Sophie Dorothea found allthe happiness she experienced in her unhappy married of this unhappiness, it must be admitted, she deliber-ately provoked. Though she did not love her husband,
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