Note 192 — V THE HEIRESS OF GREAT BRITAIN (HERRENHAUSEN, 1701-1714) (continued 2)

So late as a fortnight after Queen Anne’s death, the Duchess of Orleans mentions a report that the English people were quite contented to have George I for their King, but on condition that the Electoral Prince should never be his successor. Probably, Elizabeth Charlotte’s personal prejudices inclined her to give credit to this ridiculous rumour; for she is unable to forego the opportunity of alluding to George Augustus’ ‘ill ancestry.’—O. von Heinemann, Geschichte von Braunschweig und Hannover, vol. iii. p. 228, mentions, without reprobating, the mendacious ‘Court scandal,’ explaining the quarrel between father and son by a supposed passion of the former for his daughter-in-law!