Note 139 — V THE HEIRESS OF GREAT BRITAIN (HERRENHAUSEN, 1701-1714)

I have already touched on her grief at her son Prince Christian’s death by drowning in 1703; but the passage in which she refers to it in a letter to the elder Schütz should be read as giving proof not only of her maternal affection, but of the deep religious feeling at the bottom of her heart. (See Briefe an Hannoversche Diplomaten (1905), p. 175.)