It
could have been a storybook romance, if the authors were the brothers Grimm, or
maybe Stephen King. When Princess Sophia
Dorothea was told she was to be married to Prince George Louis of Hanover, she
fainted dead away. She collapsed again
when she was expected to greet him as her fiancé. And when she was given a diamond-studded miniature
portrait of her betrothed, she dashed it against the wall, screaming, “I will
not marry the pig snout!” But on
November 21, 1682, marry the pig snout she did.
It was probably the worst mistake of her life.
(from Princesses
Behaving Badly by Linda Rodrigues McRobbie)
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