Status Updates From The Strangest Family: The P...

The girls are stronger than me because I genuinely would have killed myself to make my parents the king & queen feel bad for subjecting me to suxh a bleak existence with no apparent way out. like if i were 38 begging for marriage and found out there have been many offers made and declined over the past few years without my say in it it wouldve been the last straw

i feel so much sympathy for the Princess Royal. i think shes so strong and i am so glad she got what she wanted in the end. i sympathize with her as a fellow eldest daughter. shes my favorite of the daughters

I’m beginning to see this book as less of a well-researched biography (which it still very much is) but also a psychological study on parenting especially in the context of G3. It’s so interesting and is helping me understand to a greater extent why their great experiment failed so disastrously. They have the very best of intentions for their children but their fear of the wiles of society ultimately fails them

The cycle of generational trauma is a hard one to break. Also, Charlotte and George’s relationship might make you go Aww because they’re one of the only truly faithful marriages in British royal history, but it is lowkey so miserable, especially for Charlotte. I just feel bad for her. For all the efforts to create a valuable, equal partnership, it seems that most of the costs were hers to pay

Edit of the father-son hatred cycle that runs rampant through the Georges to Charli XCX’s Apple

Boy this book is hefty

I know I’m supposed to be reading Maurice but I can’t resist this book. Hadlow writes in a way that is both academic, informative, and entertaining.

Caroline of Brandenburg & G2’s relationship is a train wreck. They’re so nuanced and complicated. Also the literal innate hatred towards each other in that family is crazy. Family therapist coupon awardees

Hervey got jealous of Prince Fredericks woman mistress who used to be his mistress too. So he threatened her and now he & Frederick hate each other so Hervey became besties with Frederick’s mom Caroline and she hates her son too omg

so Hervey was ghey for Frederick which made his lover Ste(phen) jealous gurrrrrrl this tea.

Frederick got daddy issues bruh 😭

Excellent read!

So Queen Caroline was basically manipulating King George II bc he was so in love with her and she essentially had total control and power. What a master manipulator diva. But then he fell in love with someone else so that’s not good

Dang. George I kicked out Caroline & George II and separated them from their kids and told their kids how “evil” George II was even tho he wasn’t so it made his kids hate him years later. & Caroline a manipulative diva omg she knows how to work a man

Sophia Charlotte on her death bed at only 37: “Do not pity me, I am going at last to satisfy my curiosity about the origin of things which even Leibniz could never explain to me, to understand space, infinity, being and nothingness” 😭

Omg Sophia Dorothea—THE TEA 😭😭 this crazy affair then her father in law had the dude killed, then they showed her affair letters to her husband George I saying he was an “awful lover” and she was locked up in a castle for the rest of her life and never allowed to see her kids or anyone again omfg. Which made George I hate his kids esp his son George II what a terrible cycle of unhappiness

Well George I sounds like a dirty rotten cheater who needs to get the stick out of his butt and learn to live a little