on Königsmarck’s vanishing 81
Stockers, Mr (lace-maker) 144
Stormont, David Murray, 6th Viscount 319
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of 98, 246
Stuart, James Edward ‘the Old Pretender’ 63, 105, 106, 149
Stuart, James Francis Edward ‘the Young Pretender’ 309
Suffolk, Edward Howard, 8th Earl of 313
Suffolk, Henry Howard, 6th Earl of 109–10
Sunderland, Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl 155, 170, 171, 204, 208
Sunderland, Judith Tichborne, Lady 274
Swift, Jonathan 9, 91, 193–4, 223, 236, 286, 313
Gulliver’s Travels 228–9, 290–1
A Poem to his Majesty King George II on the present State of Affairs in England … 231
Talbot, William, Bishop of Oxford 123–4
Tankerville, Camilla, Countess of 322
Tankerville, Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of 297, 299
Tate, Nahum 10, 191
Tenison, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury 53, 64–6, 127, 167
Thornhill, Sir James 118–19, 145
Tickell, Thomas 160, 193, 251
‘Kensington Gardens’ 154, 240
Royal Progress 2, 117
Tilson, George 68
Tobacco Excise Bill (1734) 309–11
Toland, John
welcomed into Figuelotte’s circle 37
on Sophia’s accomplishments 41–2
on George Augustus 56, 85
commends waterworks at Herrenhausen 71
on court at Hanover 82
on Caroline’s good humour and health 92
notes Sophia’s greed for English crown 95
An Account of the courts of Prussia and Hanover 118
Tower of London 115, 133, 167, 253
Townshend, Charles, 2nd Viscount 149, 155, 163, 164, 170, 208, 218, 264, 284, 285
Townshend, Dorothy Walpole, Lady 134
Treaty of Seville (1729) 284
Treaty of Utrecht (1713) 106, 136
Trevor, Thomas, 1st Baron 283
Triesdorf 58
Trimmell, Charles, Bishop of Norwich 205
Tyrconnel, John Brownlow, 1st Viscount 286
Uffenbach, Zacharias Conrad von 120
Ulrich, Duke Anton of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 50–1, 53–5, 81
Octavia, a Roman Story 51, 81
Ulrike Eleonore of Sweden 57
University of Cambridge 95
Vaillant, Jacques 80
Vanbrugh, Sir John 132
Vanderbank, John 287
Vane, Anne 255, 317
Verden 170
Vernon, Sir Charles 220
Versailles 33, 71, 216
Verses on the Coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline 233, 238
Vertue, George 269, 290
Victoria, Queen 3
Vienna 260
Voet, Jacob Ferdinand 73–4
Voit, von (minister) 50
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet 195, 199, 217
La Henriade 195
Letters Concerning the English Nation 289
Wake, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 178–9, 186, 201, 205, 206, 215, 217, 227, 260
Wallenrodt (Prussian envoy) 240–1
Walmoden, Amalie von 320–4, 331
Walpole, Horace
on Duke of Grafton teasing Caroline 39
on George Augustus taking mistresses 100, 182
on George Louis’s inner circle 159
on George Augustus’s preference for Caroline 184
on paintings at Leicester House 230
recollections of father 245
on Caroline as power behind the throne 247
on Anne Vane 255
on Mary Howard 257
on Amelia’s loss of youthful bloom 268
on Caroline as collector 288
on Caroline disguising her ill-health 292
Walpole, Robert 155
relationship with Caroline 5, 6, 203–6, 242, 245–7, 282, 286
disliked by Sarah Churchill 125
on George Augustus’s dislike of his son 150
objects to private audiences granted to Duke of Argyll 163–4
concerned at George Augustus’s interest in Parliament 165
and schism in government 170
brokers royal reconciliation 202–8, 245
character and description 202
defeats Peerage Bill 202–3
mistrusted by George Louis 217–18
involvement in South Sea Bubble 220
rebuilds Houghton Hall 220
describes Caroline as ‘a fat old bitch’ 229
informs George Augustus of his father’s death 230
satirised in print 240
dismissed from office 243
reinstated as first minister 244–7
as part of regency council 283
differences with Townshend 285
problems with Tobacco Excise Bill 309–11
effigy burnt at Charing Cross 310
on testiness of George Augustus 322
on Frederick and Caroline’s relationship 324–5
War of the Spanish Succession 87, 106
Wartenburg, Katharina von 34, 76, 103
Weekly Journal 190, 202, 222
Weissenfels 43–4, 45
Wentworth, Peter 220, 267, 278–9, 282, 294, 296
West, Richard, A Monody on the Death of Queen Caroline 4
Westminster Abbey 128, 232, 236, 330
Westminster School 235
Wharton, Thomas, To Her Majesty Queen Caroline on her Accession to the Throne 234
Whitehall, Palace of 131
Whitehall Evening Post 256
Wilhelmina Maria Frederica of Rochlitz 29, 265, 266
Wilhelmine of Prussia 241, 249, 265, 304–5
Wilhelmine Karoline see Caroline of Ansbach
Wilkins, W.H., Caroline the Illustrious 3
William III 43, 61, 63, 80, 87, 96, 105, 118, 123, 127, 234, 250, 281
William IV of Orange 305–8
William, Duke of Gloucester 62
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland 210
birth and naming of 209, 211, 262
godparents 209
childhood and education 211–14, 271
Gay’s fables dedicated to 259
anecdote concerning being a monarch 261
character and description 261
resents return of older brother Frederick 261–2
intended by parents to succeed to the English throne 262
titles conferred upon 263
unaware of family undercurrents 269
house purchased for 270
portraits of 271, 303
hunts in Windsor Forest 282
at sister Anne’s wedding 307
birthday celebrations 316
William Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach 22, 23, 43, 50, 59, 69, 111, 266
William Frederick of Saxe-Eisenach 21, 25, 33
Williams, Anne 153
Williams, Margaret 153
Wilmington, Spencer Compton, Baron 218, 243, 244, 246
Windsor Castle 251, 282, 289, 297, 298
Wise, Henry 9, 160, 189, 252
Wissing, Willem 21
Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of 248
Wollaston, William, Religion of Nature Delineated 299
Worcester, Bishop of 273
Wren, Sir Christopher 120, 132
Zincke, Christian Friedrich 128, 237, 267
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