The love of an uncrowned queen

INDEX.

Reading edition

Act of Settlement, 100

Ahlden, prisoner of, 388

— Author’s notes on, 392

Alte Palais at Hanover, 60

Amalie Wilhelmina, Countess Lewenhaupt, 82

Angelica d’Olbreuse, 11

Anne, Princess of York, 38

— Queen of England, 411

— death of, 420

Antony Ulrich, Duke of Wolfenbüttel, 1

— Roman Octavia, 417

Appendix, 445

Arenswald, Madame von, 396

Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, 1

— Frederick of Wolfenbüttel, 21

— betrothed to Sophie Dorothea, 22

— death of, 25

— the Strong (Elector of Saxony), 89

— and Aurora Königsmarck, 369

Aurora Königsmarck, 82

— and Augustus the Strong, 369

Authorities quoted, 445

Author’s notes on Ahlden, 392

Bar, Count de, 425

Bergest, Count Sigismund, 396

Berlin, 250

Bernstorff, Prime Minister of Celle, 33

Bill of Succession, 41

Bohemia, Queen of, 7

Books of reference, 445

Borosky, 86

Bothmer, Charles Augustus von, 396

Boyne, battle of the, 109

Brandenburg, Elector of, 69

— Electress of, 69

— death of, 414

Breda, 7

Brockhausen, the tryst at, 256

Brunswick, 111

Buccolini, Lucas (Bucco or Buccow), 3

— Signora, 3

Bull-baiting, 83

Bülow, Minister of Celle, 374

Bussche, Councillor, 30

— marriage of, 31

— Madame, Mistress of George Louis, 32

— banished from Hanover, 59

— George von, 396

Cambridge and Prince George Louis, 42

Carlsbad, 109

Caroline, Consort of George IV., 1

— of Anspach, marriage of, 415

Catherine of Braganza, 38

Celle, Castle of, 13

Charleroy, 39

Charles II. of England, 4

Charles, Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 108

— death of, 108

Christian Louis, Duke of Celle, 1

Christian, Duke of Celle, 9

Coalition against Louis XIV., 98

Colt, Sir William Dutton, 101

Consarbrück, 39

Correspondence between Sophie Dorothea and Königsmarck, 174

— history and authenticity of the, 118

448Correspondence, theory of key to cypher, 126

— between Knesebeck and Königsmarck, 198

Court mistresses, 32

Cresset, envoy at Hanover, 354

Crossing the RubiconRubicon, 156

Danes, campaign against, 277

Darlington, Countess of, 426

Denmark, King of, 325

De Reuss, Comte, 11

De Tarente, Princess, 7

Dist, 243

D’Olbreuse, Angelica, 11

— Eléonore, 8

— Marquis, 8

Doubts and fears, 189

East Friesland, Princess-Dowager of, 160

Edict of Nantes, 7

Elector Palatine of the Rhenish Provinces, 4

Electors of the German Empire, 99

Eléonore d’Olbreuse, 7

— married to George William, 10

— Madame von Harburg, 10

— progress of, 13

— Countess of Wilhelmsburg, 19

— Duchess of Celle, 23

— will of, 412

— death of, 428

Elizabeth, daughter of James I., 3

— Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans, 18

Epsdorff, 146

Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-LüneburgBrunswick-Lüneburg, 1

Ernest Augustus betrothed to Sophia, 6

— married to Sophia, 6

— attempt to murder, 157

Flanders, campaign in, 150

Fortière, Seigneur de la, 371

Foubert’s Academy, 84

Frankfort Fair, 233

Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1

Frederick, Prince Palatine, ex-King of Bohemia, 3

— the Great of Prussia, 75

— Augustus of Saxony, 89

— Elector of Saxony, 329

— William, Crown Prince of Prussia, 416

Gadd, J. H., assistant-librarian at Lund, 122

Gardie, Count de la, 121

George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1

— Augustus of Hanover (George II.), birth of, 65

— reminiscences, 405

— attempt to see Sophie Dorothea, 406

— marriage of, 415

— Frederick, Elector of Saxony, 329

— Louis (George I.), birth of, 6

— goes a-wooing, 38

— disposition of, 39

— at the Court of Louis XIV., 39

— visit to England, 40

— betrothed to Sophie Dorothea, 49

— married to Sophie Dorothea, 58

— illness of, 150

— Elector of Hanover, 399

— Knight of the Garter, 409

— King of England, 421

— entry into London, 422

— death of, 441

— William, Duke of Hanover, 1

— betrothed to Sophia, 5

— wooing of Eléonore, 8

— Duke of Celle, 9

— married to Eléonore, 10

— fondness for George II., 405

— death of, 412

German Empire, Electors of, 99

Germany, Emperor of, 14

Ghent, 316

Gloucester, Duke of, 400

Glove, the embroidered, 107

Göhre, 146

Green, Mrs. Everett, 122

Hague, Congress at the, 112

Hamelin, Castle of, 158

Hanover, Court of, 59

— Alte Palais, 60

Harburg, Madame von, 10

Heidelberg, 5

Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, 1

Herrenhausen, 61

Hildebrand, Königsmarck’s secretary, 353

Hungary, campaign in, 326

Ilse, Abigail, 75

Ilten, General von, 72

— Madame von, 72

James I. of England, 3

— II. of England, 71

John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1

Kendal, Duchess of, 426

— Countess of Darlington, 426

Knesebeck, Eléonore von, 63

— arrest of, 358

— prisoner at Springe, 374

— examination of, 374

— removal to Schartzfels, 374

— escape of, 403

Köcher, Dr., 373

Königsmarck, Amalie Wilhelmina, 82

— Aurora, 82

— Count Carl John, 83

— trial of, 87

— death of, 88

— Count Philip Christopher, boyhood at Celle, 20

— in England, 26

— at Hanover, 82

— Colonel of Hanoverian Guards, 95

— and Countess Platen, 104

— in the Morea, 106

— return to Hanover, 115

— entertainment by, 115

— correspondence with Sophie Dorothea, 139

— sent to Sweden as envoy, 141

— returns from the war, 233

— at Dresden, 332

— murder of, 340

— burial of, 350

— discovery of body of, 443

Lambeque, camp at, 173

Lambeth manuscripts, 38

Lassaye, Marquis de, 72

Leibniz, Professor, 35

Leine Schloss at Hanover, 60

Leopold, Emperor, 98

Lewenhaupt, Countess of, 82

— Count, 82

Linden, battle of, 316

Lockier, Dean, 34

Loo, 408

Louis XIV., 28

— Defender of the Faith, 28

— European coalition against, 98

Ludemann, Bailiff of Ahlden, 425

Luisburg, 217

Lund, University of, 121

Luxemburg, French General, 172

Macclesfield, Lord, 409

Maestricht, 39

Malortie, Marshal von, 89

Mannheim, 98

Marlortie, Herr and Madame, 396

Marriage settlement and contract of Sophie Dorothea and George Louis, 55

Mary, Princess of York, 38

Matilda, daughter of Henry II., 1

Maximilian, Prince of Hanover, 77

— intrigues of, 78

MeissenburgMeissenburg, Count Carl Philip von, 30

— Catherine Marie von, 30

— married to Bussche, 31

— Clara Elizabeth von, 30

— married to Platen, 31

Milan, 3

Moltke conspiracy, 156

— execution of, 174

Monplaisir, 67

Mons, siege and fall of, 113

Morea, the campaign in, 106

449N

Namur, siege and fall of, 172

Naples, 72

Neerwinden, battle of, 316

Northumberland, Dowager-Countess of, 84

Ogle, Countess of, 84

Osnabrück, 30

— Court of, 30

Otho William, Count, 20

— death of, 92

Palmblad, Professor, 121

Passion, the dawn of, 139

Phillipsburg, siege of, 25

Platen, Countess, 31

— marriage of, 31

— opposed to Eléonore, 33

— mistress of Ernest Augustus, 32

— jealousy of, 68

— the power of, 70

— and Königsmarck, 90

— illness of, 391

— retirement to Monplaisir, 400

— death of, 414

Playing with fire, 94

Podevils, Marshal, 249

Poëllnitz (historian), 91

Poley, envoy to Celle, 413

Portsmouth, Duchess of, 30

Primogeniture, establishment of, 77

— opposition to, 78

Prisoner of Ahlden, 388

Prussia, Queen of, correspondence with Sophie Dorothea, 425

— marriage scheme of, 429

Pyrmont, 19

Querouaille, Louise de, 30

Ramel, Baron Hans, 120

Ratze, Marie, 398

Ratzeburg, 258

Reference, books of, 445

Retribution, 437

Reuss, Comte de, 11

— Countess de, 11

Rhine, campaign on the, 39

Roman Octavia, 417

Röohlitz, Countess von, 329

Royal mistresses, 331

Rudolph Augustus of Wolfenbüttel, 21

Rupert, Prince, 36

Ryswick, Peace of, 100

Sacrifice of Sophie Dorothea, 47

Sandys, Dr., 410

Saxe, Marshal de, 369

Saxony, Augustus, Elector of, 329

Schaumann, 373

Schulenburg, Ermengarda Melusina von, 78

— nickname of, 79

— Duchess of Kendal, 426

Schulenburg-Klosterrode, Count, 122

Sophia, Princess of Bohemia, 3

— betrothed to George William, 5

— betrothed to Ernest Augustus, 6

— married to Ernest Augustus, 6

— Electress of Hanover, genealogy of, 17

— moral character, 34

— and Madame Platen, 34

— and the throne of England, 36

— at Celle, 46

— death of, 420

— Charlotte, Princess of Hanover, 69

— Electress of Brandenburg, 69

Sophie Dorothea of Celle, genealogy of, 1

— birth of, 13

— legitimised, 19

— betrothed to Augustus Frederick of Wolfenbüttel, 22

— betrothed to George Louis of Hanover, 49

— disposition of, 54

— married to George Louis (George I.), 58

— entry into Hanover, 59

— birth of George Augustus, 65

— and Madame Platen, 66

— and Marquis de Lassaye, 72

— birth of Sophie Dorothea (Queen of Prussia), 74

— correspondence with Königsmarck, 174

450Sophie Dorothea’s arrival at Ahlden, 362

— divorce of, 371

— prisoner at Ahlden, 392

— petitions of, 401

— return to Celle, 407

— return to Ahlden, 407

— literary labours, 424

— correspondence with Queen of Prussia, 425

— death of, 436

— burial of, 439

— curse of, 440

St. Denis, 39

Steinkirk, battle of, 204

Stepney, envoy at Dresden, 329

Stern, Lieutenant, 86

Thynne, Thomas, 85

— murder of, 86

Toland (historian), 410

Treves, siege of, 39

Venice, 70

Verona, siege of, 88

Victoria, Queen, 37

Vratz, Captain, 86

Westphalia, Treaty of, 1

Weyhe, General, 79

Wienhausen, 152

Wiesbaden, 217

Wilhelmsburg, 19

— Countess of, 19

William of Orange, 40

— and the throne of England, 100

— and the Prince of Wales, 409

Wisdom of serpents, 25

Witgenstein, Count, 366

York, Princess Mary of, 40

— Princess Anne of, 38

— Duke of, 38

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