Sharpen your ears! Tomorrow there is an online SCS lecture by Elisabeth Natour (University of Mainz) on ‘Contentious Sound? Music and Power in the reign of Charles I’

Monday 15 April 2024, 6pm, free registration here:

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Today is the deadline for proposals for the August @courtstudies conf. on ‘Courtly Experiences in the Premodern World, c. 1200-1800’. The conf. takes place on 22-24.08 at Palacký University Olomouc. More information, including full CFP at: courtstudies.org/conferences.ht….
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My chapter in this new volume includes material cut from my Monsieur book, so if you like that, you’ll like this!

Calling all courtly ECRs and PGR students! The Society for Court Studies offers £500 and consideration for publication in The Court Historian, to an outstanding essay in ANY area of court studies. Deadline 31 May 2024 to send to: [email protected] #AcademicPrize

The Queen tried to keep to the King's principles when managing her household, even after the King's permanent illness from 1811 onwards. Even at the risk of being seen as 'humdrum'... (SCS seminar with Amanda Westcott)

At the regency crisis in 1788-89, Queen Charlotte and members her household, such Countess Harcourt played a significant political role (SCS seminar with Amanda Westcott)

When finances deteriorated the Queen had to turn to the King for support. Her financial independence and her difficulties continued until her death after which an auction was held to clear debts (SCS seminar with Amanda Westcott)

We can see a growing independence of the Queen's household, which also pertains to finances. The birth of six daughters, only given their own establishments much later, did put a considerable financial burden on the Queen who constantly overspent (SCS seminar with Amanda Westcott

Comparable cases in the King's household could also lead to being banned from court. Though at the King's household politics was extra important. Breach in morals was sternly viewed by the Queen (SCS seminar with Amanda Westcott)

Later appointments to the Queen's bedchamber reflect a similar attitude to propriety as the King. Exiling courtiers with scandalous lives, as the Duchess of Argyll, demonstrates the Queen's views (SCS seminar with Amanda Westcott)

All the Queen's courtiers apointed in 1761 had connections to the King's court. The King continued to keep control of the Queen's household during the first decades (SCS seminar with Amanda Westcott)

George III was firm that no foreigners would be brought to court with the marriage to Charlotte. Apart from Charlotte, presumably... (SCS seminar with Amanda Westcott)

SCS seminar Amanda Westcott (Oxford) will talk about ‘Queen Charlotte's Household: the Consort's Family of Aristocratic Courtiers’. Over time the Queen's authority over her court grew. Less political but more important were family networks

Huzzah! In tomorrow's SCS seminar Amanda Westcott (Oxford) will talk about ‘Queen Charlotte's Household: the Consort's Family of Aristocratic Courtiers’

Monday 12 February 2024, 6pm - via Zoom. Sign up (for free) for the seminar here:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/amanda-westc…

Poor Marie-Louise. By 38 she had a filthy reputation and had lost her teeth but was a happy queen of Spain. In 28: 3, Sergio Belmonte-Hernandez explores attempts to prevent her marital bliss - by her grandfather, Louis XV!
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