The King's Mistress: The True & Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I (42 page)
Authors: Claudia Gold
ministerial casualties
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origins
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Pope on
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and Walpole
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–9
Speck, W.A.
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Spencer, Charles
see
Sunderland, Earl of
Spörken, Baron von
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Stafford, Earl of
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Stair, Lord
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Stanhope, James
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Steel’s Company
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Suffolk, Countess of (Henrietta Howard)
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Sunderland, Earl of (Charles Spencer)
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Sunderland, Lady
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Swift, Jonathan
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attack on Melusine
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,
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Gulliver’s Travels
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lampooning of Melusine in Irish coinage patent scandal
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on London
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‘Prometheus’
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‘A Simile on our Want of Silver’
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The South Sea Project
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theatre, London
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Thirty Years War
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Thomas, Hugh
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Toland, John
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Townshend, Charles, Viscount
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Townshend, Dorothy (née Walpole)
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Tract of the National Interest, A
(1757)
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trade, British
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Trudchen
see
Schaumburg-Lippe, Margarethe Gertrud zu
Tulip Mania (Netherlands)
212
Ulrich (tailor and fool)
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United Provinces
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Utrecht, Treaty of (1713)
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Vanbrugh, Sir John
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Venice
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Villette, marquise de
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Walpole, Horace
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Walpole, Robert
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background and character
106
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180
and Bolingbroke
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241
and Georg August
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194
and Irish copper coinage patent scandal
234
and Melusine
106
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180
–1,
183
and reconciliation of George I with son
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relationship with George I
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241
and Sophie Karoline
250
and South Sea Bubble
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War of the Spanish Succession
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Weekly Journal
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Wentworth, Peter
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Wesley, Samuel
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Westminster Bridge
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Westphalia, Treaty of (1648)
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Wharton, Duke of
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and George I
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rift amongst and reconciliation
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205
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Whitworth, Charles
247
Wilhelmine (granddaughter of George I)
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William III, King
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39
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99
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Windham, William
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Windsor Castle
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Worsley, Lucy
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Wren, Sir Christopher
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Wyndham, Sir William
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*
A left-handed, or morganatic marriage was the union between two people of different rank, usually a ruling prince with a commoner. Although the marriage was binding, neither the spouse nor any children of the marriage had rights of inheritance. It was called a left-handed marriage as during the ceremony the groom held the bride’s left, rather than her right hand.
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