DÁ QUE PENSAR…

“Panic broke out in London when, in 1745, word came of the Jacobite rebellion and the advance of a Scottish army towards the city. George II packed his bags in readiness to flee to Hanover, but Lady Stafford, one of London’s most sought-after hostesses, wrote letters inviting the wives of the Scottish leaders to a soirée.”

Geoffrey Abbott, “A Macabre Miscelany”