![]() Stella Tillyard does not mention the Wollstonecraft connection, but is utterly blameless here, for she has been busy learning to read Danish. Perhaps one of the sanest was George III's sister, Caroline Matilda, who was posted off against her will, like a dynastic parcel, to be married to her cousin Christian in 1766. Christian was first cousin to George III, and what was wonderful about the inbred royal families of Europe was that so many of their members were almost sane. Mary Wollstonecraft travelled with intrepid Romantic curiosity to Scandinavia in 1795 and saw Christian VII of Denmark at first hand she described him as "a notorious debauchee, and an idiot into the bargain". ![]()
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