{"id":1571,"date":"2011-01-30T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T02:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2011-01-30T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T02:03:18","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-30-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 30, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today’s morbid fact is so long, yet so compelling, I feel the need to share it in several parts… Let’s begin with…<\/p>\n
![\"Caroline](\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/caroline_of_anspach.jpg\" "\\"Caroline")
<\/a>Britain grew great in spite of King George II (1683-1760), a man known more for his infidelities than for his kingship. His long-suffering queen, Caroline of Anspach, predeceased him by 23 years and made an undignified exit, dying of ‘Mortification of ye Bowels’, exacerbated by a surfeit of royal pride. Despite suffering dreadfully painful bouts of colic, Caroline refused to take to her bed for fear of annoying her irascible husband. Eventually, with increasing pains and vomiting, she was persuaded to seek treatment. Her family gathered around her, Princess Caroline weeping copiously between nose-bleeds. George II visited his sick wife and alternated between tearful sympathy and carping criticisms. (“How can you stare like that?” the king said at one point. “You look like a calf that has just had its throat cut.”) A famous death-bed exchange had the queen encouraging George to marry again after her death. The sobbing monarch replied, “No – I shall have mistresses.” “Ah! my God!” exclaimed Caroline. “That won’t stop you.”<\/p>\n