Note 22 — Chapter XI · THE LAST CAMPAIGN

See the correspondence printed in Memoirs of Montrose, vol. ii. chap. xxxiv., and Memoirs of the Electress Sophia of Hanover. If the latter is to be believed Montrose was a suitor for the hand of her sister, the Princess Louise, who afterwards retired into a nunnery. But there is no hint of this in the Queen's letters, nor in any other contemporary authority. Nor is it likely that Montrose at the great crisis of his life should have found either leisure or inclination to indulge in dreams of matrimony.