Caroline of Ansbach: The Heavenly Hanoverian?

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    Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
    Portrait of Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, attributed to Noël Jouvenet (17th century). Held by the Charlottenburg Palace.
    Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz by Christoph Bernhard Francke (1695). Held by the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum.
    Portrait of Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1716-1725, based on a work of 1716). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
    Portrait of George II when Prince of Wales by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1716). Held by the Royal Collection.
    The Royal Family of Great Britain published by Elizabeth Bakewell (1749 or after). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
    Miniature of Sophia of Hanover by an unknown artist of the German School (c.1700). Held by the Royal Collection.
    Portrait of Henrietta Howard by Charles Jervas (c.1724). On loan to Marble Hill from 1986.
    Portrait of Queen Anne from the studio of John Closterman (based on a work of c.1702). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
    Portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales by Jacopo Amigoni (1735). Held by the Royal Collection.
    “Lady Montagu in Turkish Dress” by Jean-Étienne Liotard (c. 1756). Held by the Palace on the Water in Warsaw.
    Portrait of Caroline of Ansbach in the manner of Michael Dahl (c.1730). Held by Warwickshire Hall.
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    Portrait of Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales by Charles Philips (c. 1736). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
    Portrait of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales by Philip Mercier (c.1735-1736). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
    Portrait of Caroline of Ansbach by Joseph Highmore (c.1735). Held by the Royal Collection.
    Quoted texts:
    Stephen Taylor, ODNB entry on Caroline of Ansbach.
    Also consulted, were:
    Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
    #History #Georgian #Hanoverian

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  • @Rosedawn321
    @Rosedawn321 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Her husband’s devotion is so endearing! My favorite anecdote is when she put that bishop in his place after he tried “mansplaining” protestantism. Absolutely hilarious!❤

    • @londongael414
      @londongael414 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      "Bishopsplaining" - one of the worst varieties of mansplaining!😅

    • @ardenalexa94
      @ardenalexa94 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I love the woman’s sassy attitude with him. 😂 If only there was a Time Machine to go back and see the look on his face. 😂

    • @livinglife4835
      @livinglife4835 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why oh why, do modern women insist on forcing their 21st century sensibilities on history. By doing so, you negate all what those men and women had accomplished. Truly disappointed.

  • @NannaVildeJensen-qr5sh
    @NannaVildeJensen-qr5sh ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Your presentation style is so great. It makes us viewers feel as we know the historical people personally, even though they were alive so many centuries ago.
    Keep up the good work, Dr. Kat!🍀 Best wishes from Norway

  • @kaloarepo288
    @kaloarepo288 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    The great composer Georg Frederick Handel, originally German of course, wrote the coronation anthems including the sublime "Zadok the Priest" for the coronation of Caroline's husband George II in 1726. Handel also wrote the music for the funeral of Caroline and the music is called "The ways of Zion do mourn." Handel, who became a British celebrity is buried in Westminster Abbey in poet's corner with a fine monument showing him with the manuscript of his great oratorio "Messiah." Handel was born in Halle in Saxony not that far from Ansbach which was ruled by a branch of the Hohenzollern family - the dynasty of Frederick the Great and of Kaiser William II of World War One fame.

  • @midwifelife
    @midwifelife ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Thank you for this, I'm a historian focusing more on social and cultural history, but have never been interested in the Georgian era and although I'd heard of Caroline, have never studied her life. This was so interesting, I feel I need to go and read more about her, amazing woman!

  • @tc2334
    @tc2334 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Dr. Kat, I know that your specialty is the Tudor period, but I really hope that you can make more videos about the Hanoverians in future.

    • @ReadingthePast
      @ReadingthePast  ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I will put the Hanoverians on my list, thank you 😊

  • @julzy3
    @julzy3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    What an amazing life she led prior to the hernia. I can just imagine her looking through a desk or cabinet & finding two hundred year old Holbein drawings & then being a smart lady she knew better than to burn them or reuse the paper. 👑🏰

  • @rockingthemike
    @rockingthemike ปีที่แล้ว +12

    as someone who's had a perforated bowel due to crohn's disease, the experience caroline had in her final days is the stuff of nightmares.

  • @rebeccasharley593
    @rebeccasharley593 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Dr Kat, I am on bed rest at 35 weeks pregnant and your videos and the History Hit subscription I got with your discount is saving my sanity! Thanks so much.

    • @ReadingthePast
      @ReadingthePast  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wishing you all the best for the rest of your pregnancy and for the birth ❤️

  • @Lionstar16
    @Lionstar16 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Caroline's remarkable wit never left her, even during the agonising operation that attempted to fix her hernia - she told one of the performing surgeons (who was going through a bitter divorce) to imagine she was his estranged wife and what would he give to cut into her now. Another surgeon accidentally set his wig on fire while holding a candle and Caroline had to ask him to stop operating so she could laugh.

  • @folkloreresearch
    @folkloreresearch ปีที่แล้ว +59

    😍Dr Kat is one of the best historians on youtube, and should be on every history enthusiast's watchlist!

    • @ReadingthePast
      @ReadingthePast  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You are very kind! Thank you 😊

    • @christysmith1058
      @christysmith1058 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree! I subscribe to and enjoy many historians’ channels, but if I could only subscribe to one it would be to Dr. Kat’s.

    • @BeeKool__113
      @BeeKool__113 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely! I 100% agree!!

  • @juleebrave2068
    @juleebrave2068 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The Bridgerton series is entertaining. I’m interested in the history of the “Georges” now. And their Queen consorts. Thanks!

  • @chriscarson7384
    @chriscarson7384 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Dr. Kat, I have read that the Hanovarian monarchs had the worst relationships with their heirs, and your story today seems to emphasize that point. However, I was wondering which English/British dynasty YOU think had the most generational fall-out. I confess I am thinking of the Plantagenets. Thank you for your wonderful videos! 👑👑👑

  • @ruthspanos2532
    @ruthspanos2532 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    It was nice to 👂🏻 of a female royal who was educated.
    It’s understandable why the generational trauma of being separated from your parents might be repeated…but unfortunate that they didn’t seem to learn from it!

    • @JustineBrownsBookshelf
      @JustineBrownsBookshelf ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Most were educated in fact- especially if they expected to reign.

  • @kikiberlin1979
    @kikiberlin1979 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Can't wait to hear and learn more about our expat. Greetings from Ansbach.

  • @barbarabell8674
    @barbarabell8674 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Her relationship with her husband was so sweet! Seems rare in marriages of the past, especially with royals. Thanks Dr. Kat!

  • @lucyosborne9239
    @lucyosborne9239 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Dr. Kat, I knew some about George but Caroline has to me been a personality only in the description as the Gearge's wife, and not so much of her own very remarkable life. First, courage. She must have had real staunch and stoic courage to have survived all that she did as a child, let alone that often indignancy of what she suffered as first Princess of Wales, then as Queen Consort. I'm not sure if you've read any of my comments in the past, but I'm a Registered Nurse in Critical Care or CCRN. What you describe of her medical mishaps takes enormous grace and perseverance to have withstood. Her end, I can't even imagine how painful that would have been. (I keep thinking, what were those doctors doing? Did they not recognize bowel when they saw it? not much practice in any medical sense to me even in that time frame.) And being driven in a carriage at high speed through London while in labour is just plain horrific. Anyone who has given birth "naturally", myself included of a bouncing 8.5lb girl, just groans and clutches her gut in sympathy. And that's only two pieces of it. I can imagine her as a very charming, intelligent and caring human being to have done so much on her own account, aside from being The Queen of England. Now that I do know something about her, I'll be interested to see if my snarled-up family tree includes her. It probably will as nobility and royalty are famous for intermarrying to an almost dizzying degree. As a direct Stuart descendant, I'm either cousin or daughter to some degree or another. She must have been quite a lady.

    • @AthenaisC
      @AthenaisC ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm a direct Stuart descendant as well, albeit way, way back. We are very distant cousins, always cool to meet another one. 😊

    • @lucyosborne9239
      @lucyosborne9239 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AthenaisC Nice to meet you, cousin! Are you from the Stuart branch that connects the Spencers? That would be too cool. Diana and now Charles, Sarah and Jane are third cousins, and the connection is hilarious. The connection is of course from "the wrong side of the sheets" but Asenath Stetson got the best of the deal I think.
      There are three Stetson women in my family tree right around the time of the 3rd Earl Spencer, Frederick. The Spencers are direct and legitimate descendants of the Stuart line, as I am through a different line. Back to Freddy and the girls. The three ladies in question were all named Stetson, three generations of them, Asenath then her daughter Lusanna and then her daughter Asenath. You with me so far? They landed at Po9rtsmouth New Hampshire, the younger Asenath being heavily pregnant. I pondered this question for months. How could three generations of women all have the same surname without a man to be seen in any direction. Finally, when I looked to the birth record of the child Asenath was carrying, I saw the name Charles Stuart Spencer. Hmm where have I heard that name before? The name listed as his father was Frederick John Spencer. I looked up the days and dates of all of the characters and I had my answer. I decided to call Althorpe (I mean, why not? The worst they could do was hang up on me.) and to make a long story longer, there was a record at Althorpe of a pretty large lump sum payment to Asenath Stetson the elder for her, her daughter and granddaughter and for the education/dowry for the baby. Then I heard a brief pause on the phone and then, "This is Charles. Are you Ms. Osborne?" I wasn't expecting that. It would seem that the Earl had an interest in that subject and had no idea what happened to the Stetsons after his family paid them to disappear. Then it all unfolded. The Stetsons were a family of women who were courtesans. The youngest, Asenath, was paid to teach Viscount Frederick the ways of a woman's body prior to his wedding night. The current Earl Charles wanted to know who we were, what had become of the baby and all about my own family's heritage, of which the Spencers could be said to be a delightful and amusing side note. It does mean, however, that William and Harry are third cousins to me once removed. Little George will be my granddaughter's fifth cousin. I'm a Plantagenet descendant from Eleanor of Aquitaine. I found it very curious that, in my family going back to Roman times, it's been the women who have been the stronger links and the survivors. Margaret Beaufort is a good example. As a descendant of John of Gaunt, Beaurfort would have been a third cousin, god knows how many times removed. There was nothing stopping Margaret Beaufort. The portcullis on her Arms is very well earned. Part of the Osborne Crest has the Beaufort Portcullis on it. After I had done a couple of years' work on my own genealogy, it occurred to me that there were many, many names that no one will ever know: the children lost in infancy, the brothers killed in battle or by misfortune, the women who died in childbed and all the others who didn't live long enough to reproduce. They far outnumber those who survived. With the curiosities and delights also comes the realization that the world is a lens with two parts.

    • @AthenaisC
      @AthenaisC ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lucyosborne9239 Wow, that is a fascinating story. How cool you got to speak to the Earl himself! I'll look up my Stuart connections and let you know!

    • @lucyosborne9239
      @lucyosborne9239 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AthenaisC Nice! Welcome to the Spencer/Osborne branch. Yes, it's that Spencer.

  • @ahmedzahir2865
    @ahmedzahir2865 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Poor Caroline! What an awful way to die. Thank you for all this info. Great work as always 👑👑👑

    • @londongael414
      @londongael414 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Truly horrible! There was a long time in which you were better off NOT being able to afford top of the line medicine. Better to rely on the humble, and more cautious, apothecary.

  • @wendymoyer782
    @wendymoyer782 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Dr. Kat...you are simply the best. That warning was so awesome and pertinent. Not only did you give to me a newfound appreciation for this clever, talented and strong woman and the lasting impact she had on our world and society; with your descriptions of her, and my own experience of the pain of a bowel blockage, I was moved to tears to think of the suffering this special woman endured in her last days, having undergone such surgery without modern painkillers.
    Honesty, I am told by medical professionals that I have a high pain tolerance. I have suffered from migraines for 40 years and back pain daily for almost 30. But that was the worst pain I have experienced. It altered my level of consciousness. I could not respond to questions, and was incoherent if I did try! I thank God daily for modern medicine and pain drips.

  • @nicoleachilles8765
    @nicoleachilles8765 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video as always. Would have loved to see a picture of you in the Caroline of Ansbach costume. 👸👸🏻👸🏼

  • @susannjarvis5587
    @susannjarvis5587 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was not aware of Caroline of Ansbach's intellectual prowess nor her foresight when it came to the small pox vaccine. What most stories focus on is the terrible rift between King George II and Queen Caroline, and their son, Frederick, the Prince of Wales. Possibly because this animosity between generations seemed to have been a Hanoverian "tradition" so it became a prime story. Thank you for focusing your informative video on a most interesting woman.👑👑👑

  • @anniethemese1215
    @anniethemese1215 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am a week out from surgery for bowel cancer during which some feet of my gut were removed. Even when done well in a modern hospital, this is a brutally painful surgery only endurable thanks to narcotic pain relief - which doesnt really work well. I cannot imagine being hacked at by clueless surgeons several centuries ago and to suffer through torture without modern analgesia. This poor woman had an agonizing death. Poor Caroline, how she must have suffered. Thanks for this, Dr. Kat

    • @samanthafordyce5795
      @samanthafordyce5795 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I had the same experience. As do you, I can't imagine having anything like it without modern medicine's advantages, especially the painkillers and antibiotics.

  • @LaLayla99
    @LaLayla99 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    👑 Ive been learning more about rhe Hanovarians. "Daughters of the Winter Queen" is a great book about Princess Elizabeth and her children. Thanks for another great vid!

  • @ellencook1658
    @ellencook1658 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    👸🏼 ❤ so many medical mysteries of the past could be easily remedied today. I hope that can still be said from now on.
    She was fortunate to have been encouraged in her curiosity. So proud of her for responding clearly to that impertinent archbishop. Good for her! I can see your love for this woman, Dr. Kat. She was very modern and may even have had a sense of humor worth attending.

  • @megthomas580
    @megthomas580 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    An excellent book about the Hanoverians is The Strangest Family by Janice Hadlow. It details how so much of George The Third’s life was an attempt to reject the ‘malign inheritance of emotional dysfunction that had been handed down from generation to generation’ including the keeping of mistresses among many other things.

  • @takingteawithcatherine
    @takingteawithcatherine ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It's been ages since I read a Jean Plaidy novel about Caroline. It's nice to hear her get attention!
    Timmy will be asking his teacher questions about hernias and bowels.

    • @hiwakoo
      @hiwakoo ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't google it😎

    • @BeeKool__113
      @BeeKool__113 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love Jean Plaidy's books!! 😊

  • @mlgmoore
    @mlgmoore ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It always amazes me how generation after generation, despite what happened to themselves, the Hanoverians managed to screw up their relationships with their sons. 👑🕌🏰

    • @samanthafordyce5795
      @samanthafordyce5795 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And it continues today. QE II and Charles; Charles and Harry. Let's hope it stops in this generation.

  • @joydemarest7887
    @joydemarest7887 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My introduction to Caroline of Aunsbach was in the fictional series The Baroque Cycle by Neil Stephenson, who prefaced it by saying he became interested in that time period since it isn't something taught in (American) schools. Caroline is simply fascinating.

  • @bethwilliams4760
    @bethwilliams4760 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Caroline Was very fascinating and what a Diplomat she was. It was sad that her and Fredrick hadn't reconciled. Maybe they should have brought him to England

  • @ladymeghenderson9337
    @ladymeghenderson9337 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    What an amazing lady, so sad that things were never resolved between her and her son.

  • @alexrafe2590
    @alexrafe2590 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you Dr Kat for that fascinating examination of the life and career of this clearly very erudite and accomplished Queen. I believe Lucy Worsley in one of her documentaries on the Hanovers remarked that Caroline was one of her favourite queens as well. Like you, I’ve always been intrigued by the scholarly bent that characterised the Electress Sophia, her daughter the Queen in Prussia and only sister of George I, who cared for and educated Caroline at her court in Berlin.
    I think one of my favourite Hanoverians was Queen Anne’s namesake, and Caroline’s eldest daughter Anne Princess Royal, whose life went on to parallel that of the previous Stuart princesses, the two Marys who would go on to become Princesses of Orange in the century before Anne would follow them to Holland.

  • @evelinharmannfan7191
    @evelinharmannfan7191 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I live close to Hannover, so this part of history makes me feel really connected to the UK. I also like the letters of Lieselotte von der Pfalz ( Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate). She wrote them after to her aunt Charlotte who raised her. The letters are both very affectionate and personal and at the same time of astute observation, filled with historical and political details. She also has a great sense of humour.

    • @hiwakoo
      @hiwakoo ปีที่แล้ว

      Being born near Heidelberg in Germany, I am so touched to see Liselotte mentioned here. I heard that she too was interested in science and thus likeminded.

  • @tonyausten2168
    @tonyausten2168 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You should do a video on Lord Harvey, he seems he has thousands of original letters with ALL the gossip.

    • @tonyausten2168
      @tonyausten2168 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@londongael414 excellent thanks

  • @JeannetteSolimine
    @JeannetteSolimine ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I've always loved Caroline of Ansbach. Thank you for doing a video on her to introduce her to others.

  • @LaSirenaSaggia
    @LaSirenaSaggia ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another fabulous video 🥰 You really are the best in the biz! RIP to Caroline, a true legend gone too soon 🙏🏼

  • @asugirlgonenerdy
    @asugirlgonenerdy ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love that you gave the “you can eat, and you can watch this video, but you can’t do them both at the same time” disclaimer.😂 That said, as a nurse, I could eat a sandwich over an abscess, and I always find it hilarious when presented with evidence that this is *not* a normal thing that normal people do. Being a nurse is its own special kind of feral, where we don’t have any awareness of good manners and just go on about truly disgusting things while we eat lunch, happily oblivious to the pearl-clutching/gagging/away-scampering of those around us. Been “invited” to leave a particular section of a restaurant once because apparently the other diners were uninterested in talking about medical leeches and medical maggots, as a group of us were doing after a shift.🤣🤣

  • @BrainFoggedOut
    @BrainFoggedOut ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I hadn't known anything about Caroline, this was really interesting to learn about, thank you!

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love your channel! So imformative and entertaining!❤❤😊😊

  • @susannaheanes
    @susannaheanes ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What an interesting video - I hadn’t given this Queen much thought at all, and you have piqued my interest in her. I will see what books might be available ❤ thank you so much!

  • @inkenhafner7187
    @inkenhafner7187 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm not working in the medical field, but I know that autopsies on humans at that time were not allowed and had not been for centuries. And as she had been hiding the prolapsing parts for so long what the doctors saw in the end might have been a dried up and/or nectrotised mass.
    I'm not so sure if it had saved her if they had just pushed that back and tried to close the hernia.
    But that must have been a horribly painful passing for her and traumatising for her husband.

  • @pamelaoliver8442
    @pamelaoliver8442 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Right?? Why haven't yall "liked" this yet?! It's good for Dr Kat's algorithm

  • @lesleyschultz6846
    @lesleyschultz6846 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a beautiful example of a husband's unending devotion! Thank you for this video!

  • @penichandler3585
    @penichandler3585 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Enjoy all your videos. Would love to learn more about Frederick's 17 years away from his family.

    • @ReadingthePast
      @ReadingthePast  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can certainly look into that ☺️

  • @anneangstadt1882
    @anneangstadt1882 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another historical figure killed by doctors! Drat. But a wonderful life.

  • @annemorton5236
    @annemorton5236 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lucky you! to get to 'be' Queen Caroline! years and years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, my area of interest was Alexander Pope and his circle - I became a huge fan of Caroline - thank you for making this wonderful woman better known.

  • @zofiamcsparlin8239
    @zofiamcsparlin8239 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Did I miss why Frederick and Augusta snuck away for the birth? Was it just to be away from his parents, or something more?
    A yes for a video on Henrietta Howard!

  • @leslielegrand728
    @leslielegrand728 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Your warning not to eat during your narration of Caroline’s heath status is well over done. You handled it most tastefully 😊

  • @o.mcneely4424
    @o.mcneely4424 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dr Kat: “If you have issues with intestinal talk, you can eat, or you can watch the rest of the video, but you can’t do both.”
    Me, who hauled my mother into the ER when she was hours away from a ruptured volvulus and helped her through two surgeries and recovery: “HAH, TRY ME!” *chomps on a pretzel*

  • @1234cheerful
    @1234cheerful ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A complete relief after all those Tudors for a start. I think she set an example for how to do things properly. I am very glad also to hear of a loving marriage for her.

  • @ReghardBrits
    @ReghardBrits ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s always a highlight of my day when you release a new video. Thanks!

  • @lindahartman4543
    @lindahartman4543 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Caroline and Her King had an endearing relationship, It is heart breaking that she died so painfully from something that is routinely simple today. Thank heavens for modern surgery and antiseptic practices.

  • @jenniferstone2975
    @jenniferstone2975 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Your presentation skills are excellent! I have watched every one of your videos from the time you launched your channel. Each presentation is a masterful essay, supported with outstanding visuals and enjoyable for me, the eager viewer. Thank you for your hard work!

  • @Delleis4u
    @Delleis4u ปีที่แล้ว +2

    👑loved this video - I didn’t know anything really about Caroline of Ansbach so it was lovely to start to fill in that gap in my Hanoverian knowledge

  • @TerraMarshall1
    @TerraMarshall1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dr Kat, Your channel is my favorite. Please keep the videos coming! I’ve listened to all of them already and would love to hear more! You’ve done a wonderful job. Keep up the good work ❤

  • @annettekoonce8122
    @annettekoonce8122 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love Caroline of Ansbach and the way you presented her story. It is easy to understand why she is your favorite queen. She was not only extremely intelligent and so far ahead of her time; her husband and the country loved and trusted her. Her son, Fredrich, disappointed both his parents. Perhaps Britain was lucky that he pre-deceased his father. Dr Kat, I have listened to so many of your videos on TH-cam and have learned so much about history. I am a retired psychologist but would have loved to have become a historian.

  • @the_petty_crocker
    @the_petty_crocker ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've never heard of Caroline, but will be reading up on her as soon as possible! I've also been catching up on 'Betwixt the Sheets' and your episode was terrific! Kate Lister is so fabulously wonderful and so are you! 👑👑👑

  • @starrywizdom
    @starrywizdom ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ansbach reminds me of Asbach brandy filled chocolates; now I'm craving them...
    🍫👑

  • @johnnzboy
    @johnnzboy ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Caroline of Ansbach has always been my favourite Hanoverian since reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle where she is presented first as a quick-witted girl who, under the tutelage of Queen Sophia Charlotte and Electress Sophia, blooms into a humanistic and fiercely intelligent woman, able to spar with natural philosophers yet show genuine interest in the plights of her British subjects - what a pleasure to hear her story afresh in Dr Kat's engaging manner. On a pedantic note, be careful of German lieb/leib - lieb is 'leeb', think Liebling or ich liebe dich (or Liebfraumilch) and leib is 'libe' (rhymes with 'vibe') such as in Leibniz (libe-nitz).

    • @hiwakoo
      @hiwakoo ปีที่แล้ว

      I can hear Caroline say:" Lieber Leinbnitz, aber......."😀

    • @johnnzboy
      @johnnzboy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hiwakoo "Lieber Leibniz" is a nice Eselsbrücke for remembering the ie/ei pronunciations :)

    • @samanthafordyce5795
      @samanthafordyce5795 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My German professor told us that, "When two vowels go walking, the second one does the talking." It's an easy key to pronunciation of an unfamiliar word.

  • @tonyk1584
    @tonyk1584 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Discussions most fowl, of a herniated bowel, caused me to scowl, but I'm okay now(el)

  • @mparis130
    @mparis130 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Caroline sounds really rad! These early Hanoverians seem to have had some really lovely marriages (thinking about George 3 and Charlotte M-S, Victoria and Albert)

  • @pat412pear
    @pat412pear ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A friend of mine did her thesis for a Public Health degree by extrapolating how many people living today owe their lives to Caroline's work for small pox vaccine adoption. I don't remember the exact number, but it was something like 1 in 30 in the UK. (But don't quote me.)

  • @scarlettg6136
    @scarlettg6136 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👸family backbiting will forever plague the royals. Thank you for making it fun

  • @chaseschneier1076
    @chaseschneier1076 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Both interesting and aggravating how many unnecessary deaths throughout history were perpetrated by medical arrogance and mismanagement.

  • @chrisschepper9312
    @chrisschepper9312 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoyed meeting you a couple weeks ago at Hampton Court, Dr. Cat. Your play that was put on for the children in the Great Hall was fun to watch. I appreciated the sharing of your knowledge, too, on Margaret Beaufort's portcullis crest that is so often seen in many an old English royal place. Thank you!

  • @chipbuttytime3396
    @chipbuttytime3396 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    history hit where the presenters hog the camera whilst prancing about... no thank you, much prefer non bbc style history documentaies

  • @lindsaydrewe8219
    @lindsaydrewe8219 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That poor woman😮 And a lesson to grandparents about interfering in a grandchilds life, I should think.👑

  • @AnastasiaRoseDamrau
    @AnastasiaRoseDamrau ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I feel like this episode is a great illustration of my belief that you are better off avoiding all physicians and surgeons up to about the end of the 19th century. It's not the most horrific surgery I've heard about, but it's not good, either.

  • @MichelleSMV
    @MichelleSMV ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a fascinating woman! I especially love the she found those sketches hidden about like that. It's little things like that which preserves art for the future

  • @SarahGreen523
    @SarahGreen523 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👑 I appreciate getting to know this queen. She sounds very strong minded with a high tolerance for pain.

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This poor lady, I hate that she died in such great pain, or that anyone did. Really, until the 20th C., people were better off without any “doctoring” at all.

  • @christinegraham2579
    @christinegraham2579 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👑 King George II was clearly deeply devoted to his intelligent wife!

  • @minsalbooks
    @minsalbooks ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was not aware of even half of this information! I have watched documentaries and they never say this.

  • @kimbutton5850
    @kimbutton5850 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    with all of her involvement in medical progression not one of her doctors couldnt have figure out to save her

  • @worshipualone
    @worshipualone ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i can sometimes get the george's and their wives confused - this was a perfect look into caroline!

  • @juliancoulden1753
    @juliancoulden1753 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful. Fascinating. An extraordinary woman. Thank you for bringing Caroline alive.

  • @ajnormandgroome
    @ajnormandgroome ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I so appreciate that you include sources. It is not done by too many history TH-camrs

  • @michaellewis6510
    @michaellewis6510 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree. An amazing lady! The best of the bunch.

  • @foxenandfamily5060
    @foxenandfamily5060 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent discussion of the herniated bowel, and not at all distressing or disgusting, except for the sadness I felt for her having been in such godawful pain. Thank you for making this interesting video; I really am not at all familiar with the Hanoverians. I in fact had to drag myself to watch this and was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it (au fond, I am a Tudor fan). Now I have to go watch all your other Hanoverian videos!

  • @tmoore1144
    @tmoore1144 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wasn't grossed out at all by her death. Just saddened. But then I am a nurse. Takes more than that to gross us out.

  • @manyagaver1946
    @manyagaver1946 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Me, watching this while eating my lunch getting to the end: slowly pushing my salad away at the warning.

  • @j7333nnn
    @j7333nnn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Will have to watch the recording - love you Dr. Kat !!

  • @kellimihalic116
    @kellimihalic116 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love your telling the world of British History.

  • @prettypic444
    @prettypic444 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope Caroline had a microphone to drop after that burn on the bishop

  • @manyagaver1946
    @manyagaver1946 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’d love a what’s real and what’s changed in the new Queen Charlotte tv show, it’s a bit different than what you’ve been doing but I think would be fun. Maybe also speculating why they made those changes

  • @amygb
    @amygb ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👑👑👑👑 I can certainly appreciate why you have such admiration and respect for Caroline, such a fascinating person and significant legacy. Thanks for another great video! 👑👑👑👑

  • @nicolebrunzel6608
    @nicolebrunzel6608 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As always it was a delight to listen to you and learn something new ❤.

  • @wherermytacos5903
    @wherermytacos5903 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey, at 5:00 you made a mistake. Sophia Charlotte did not become Queen OF Prussia, she became Queen IN Prussia. the Hohenzollerns were Kings IN Prussia from 1700 - 1772 and then only in 1772 did it become King/Queen OF Prussia

  • @SafetySpooon
    @SafetySpooon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She is said to have told him, as she lay dying, that he should marry again. He sobbed in reply, "No, I shall have mistresses"

    • @Lionstar16
      @Lionstar16 ปีที่แล้ว

      And he kept that promise for the rest of his life saying that none of his mistresses were fit to buckle Caroline's shoe

  • @philippajones5850
    @philippajones5850 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👑 fascinating! I knew nothing about Caroline. I love your videos - you're so knowledgeable, but also so entertaining!

  • @kfemme68
    @kfemme68 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a little bit of knowledge about having bowel surgery. I was in a massive car accident and after they put all the plates and pins and screws in to put me back together; mine was found about a week to a week and a half later. I guess once they got me out of ICU, they realized that everything wasn't quite working as it should there so after some emergency cat scans they rushed me into surgery again and reconnected it. Luckily, I didn't end up with it killing me and/or having to have a colostomy. It doesn't work perfect but along with everything else in my life... I'm just thankful to be alive because statistically I should be dead. So even today, bowel reconstruction or any other problem with it isn't a walk in the park. If you're having problems or pain that you think might be because of it...see a Dr and get a colonoscopy. Just a little bit of advice that can't hurt and might really help!
    Big hugs all, k

    • @hiwakoo
      @hiwakoo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And big hugs to you to. My husband nearly dies of complications during abdominal surgery..... But we kept fighting and overcame the trauma.

    • @kfemme68
      @kfemme68 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hiwakoo I'm so glad to hear that you overcame the trauma. It can be hard. Sending love, light and big healing hugs, k 💗🕯️🫂

  • @nr8337
    @nr8337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is reason to believe that Caroline and George II had more children than the historical records mention. 'Kendall' is believed to have been the Hanoverian surname, a variant of Handel and Hohenzollern. Some of the couple's male heirs immigrated to the British Caribbean and the Americas where they still live.

  • @samanthafordyce5795
    @samanthafordyce5795 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this. I knew Caroline by name, as the wife of George II and I knew about the putative mistress, but that was all. It seems like she was a true intellectual; too bad that didn't come down to the rest of her descendants. I think Charles and William are starting to pick up the pace there, but it's been a long dry spell.

  • @jakual339
    @jakual339 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was just taking a look at one of your older videos, and was kind of amazed to realize how much the quality (especially on the audio) has improved. It's the sort of thing people mostly mention when something's *wrong*, but I wanted to take a second to express my appreciation for the work you've put in to make the channel look and sound better over time. The results are definitely worth it!

    • @ReadingthePast
      @ReadingthePast  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for taking the time to write this, I’m very pleased that you can see the improvements 😊

  • @SecretSquirrelFun
    @SecretSquirrelFun 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant video, thank you for sharing this with me, much appreciated.
    👑 🎨👑🎨👑🎨👑🎨
    P.s so, could I please clarify, the new wording for an emoji is to call it a social glyph? Have I understood that correctly?
    Because I’ve been wondering (as I play catch up with your videos), but not wondering enough that I’ve been bothered to look it up online.
    I honestly had assumed incorrectly, that a social glyph was something new entirely that I’d somehow missed out on. 🤣🤣
    🙂🐿🌈❤️
    [sydney australia]

  • @dorian4534
    @dorian4534 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The most I know of George II and his wife comes from information from the work of Stella Tillyard, "Aristocrats", which is about the children of the Duke of Richmond. (Love to see a video about them!) It's edifying to hear about love matches in history.

  • @cwaller7008
    @cwaller7008 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤ I love any connection with Elizabeth Stuart, who would've been Sophia Charlotte's grandmother? It is so helpful to tie in how the hanoverians inherited. Sophia of Hanover's sisters are also interesting people to learn about. I love your videos, as always, thanks!❤❤❤

  • @kathrynmast916
    @kathrynmast916 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dr. Kat, your make-up looks gorgeous! Don’t know if it’s the lighting or you’ve changed your application or product, kudos!😊 As for your presentation, as always interesting, informative, and a pure delight😊

  • @gwynwellliver4489
    @gwynwellliver4489 ปีที่แล้ว

    Debate: Who is more dysfunctional? Tudors, Hanovarians, Plantagenets, or Windsors? 😂 Resources, one older and the others more modern, in my library. "The First Four Georges" by J.H. Plumb from an independent study with my wonderful history chair over 30 years ago, Dr. Brian Dunn. I love the wealth of biographies out there about medieval and early modern women. "Queen Anne" by Anne Somerset and "Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III " by Flora Fraser taught me so much more about the Hanoverian women. Thank God for modern medicine!

  • @csmith63
    @csmith63 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's a totally different George and Caroline, but if you've never seen A Royal Scandal, made in 1997 and utterly hilarious, you must! A comedy made in that year for good reason that wasn't JUST about the past, it is a great rendering that doesn't play too loosely with the story even though of course taking dramatic license comedically. GREAT movie if you need a laugh and like things like Charles III (the movie/play and not the real guy, obviously)! I bring it up because THAT is MY favorite Caroline--though certainly more flawed!

  • @lacebird76
    @lacebird76 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi. Gunna be totally honest here…. I love history and I love what you’re doing BUT… Like a 3 year old trying to fall asleep/relax while you tell me a story ….
    I wish you had more pictures. I know! I know! I’m just being a whiny baby here in Chicago, USA at 64 yr white country girl. Sorry if I hurt your feelings; just a suggestion. Hugs!!

  • @jennaolbermann7663
    @jennaolbermann7663 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent presentation and I learned so much about this remarkable woman. A forward thinking and intelligent woman. Caroline must have been a very strong woman.