Note 102 — IV THE ELECTORAL HOUSE OF HANOVER (HANOVER AND HERRENHAUSEN, 1688-1701)

‘That the Elector is a dry and disagreeable gentleman,’ writes the Duchess of Orleans in 1702, ‘I had opportunity enough to discern when he was here ... but where he is entirely in the wrong, is in his way of living with his mother, to whom he is in duty bound to show nothing but respect.’