Note 115 — IV THE ELECTORAL HOUSE OF HANOVER (HANOVER AND HERRENHAUSEN, 1688-1701) (continued 2)

It is a curious instance of a certain cynical hauteur in George Lewis (which, however, contains an element of manly self-possession) that he should have supplied the Duchess of Orleans with a key to the characters of the Supplement to the Roman Octavia, in which Duke Antony Ulric had taken the opportunity, perhaps with the help of Fräulein von dem Knesebeck’s reminiscences, of giving to the world a version of the whole story of the Duchess of Ahlden.—A French MS., Histoire de Frédegonde, Princesse de Chérusque, Duchesse d’Hanovre, Épouse de George, Roi de la Grande Bretagne, proposing to give an account, inter alia, of ‘sa Prison au Chateau d’Alhen, où elle a fini ses jours,’ supposed to date from about 1740, was not long since advertised for sale.