Extended Reading
  • Violette 2022-10-27 23:51:32

    The price of ideals and happiness

    "Royal Merry History" tells the story of a tragic love among the Danish royal family in the background of the late Renaissance in Western Europe. The British princess Caroline, whose fate was decided from her mother's womb, was betrothed to a Danish king Christian VII with a mental disorder. The...

  • Jannie 2022-09-11 19:27:33

    China at the end of 2017

    1. Change always hurts. A mad king, the lives of two Enlightenmentists, and the lives of a queen form a novel and bizarre combination. The change of a feudal country with deep roots seems to only start from such a strangeness.

    2. As long as torture exists, democracy and free will can never...

A Royal Affair quotes

  • Johann Friedrich Struensee: [about vaccine] If it goes well, and I'm confident that it will, he will be immune.

    Ove Høegh-Guldberg: The Crown Prince is the heir to the Danish throne! He's protected by God!

    Johann Friedrich Struensee: A smallpox epidemic is not picky. It kills both kings and queens. As you very well know.

  • Johann Friedrich Struensee: [to Struensee] I spend all my time trying to navigate all your new laws. You have ideas as the same rate that the rest of us change clothes.