Note 116 — IV THE ELECTORAL HOUSE OF HANOVER (HANOVER AND HERRENHAUSEN, 1688-1701) (continued 2)
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Lord Hervey’s story of his having preserved his mother’s picture may be true; but the further statement that he proposed, if she had survived, to have brought her over and declared her Queen, needs a stronger qualification than the ‘it was said,’ by which it is accompanied. (Memoirs, Vol. iii. pp. 348-9.)