Andreas Gottlieb Baron von Bernstorff

MCC supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. He resigned as Lord Chancellor on 23 September 1710 when the Tories came to...

At the turning point of George I 's accession, Lord Cowper established his position in the new political landscape through A Treatise on the State of Parties (otherwise known as An Impartial History of Parties...

MCC and her husband exchanged affectionate letters from before their marriage. Some years before George I succeeded to the English throne she established contact with his chief minister, Baron Bernstorff , by letter. Her correspondence...