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So much drama to pack into 24 short years! Was surprised she wasn't executed, they must have felt that G3 was not kidding around. But maybe that was not too likely a fate for a queen, no matter the crime; Henry the VIII's story being so well known, I tend to think royalty willing to deal with unwanted spouses rather finally.

So that was mostly Sophia Dorothea's story also. Makes me sad, and mad - to have so little control, so few options.

Here's hoping the next Caroline's scandal(s) even the score, even if slightly!

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The next Caroline def got her own back (almost until the end). I think by this stage of history, beheading of “errant” wives was out of fashion but that still left royal women largely at the mercy of their families. Lots suffered in silence or rebelled, and suffered worse fates.

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