![]() ![]() The Foreign Office of a country is a political prize for which opposition parties are always striving. To-day ambassadors are less interested in the king’s mistress, and more in his ministers. As ‘personal government’ gives place to democracy, the subject matter of diplomacy becomes the changing combinations of political parties rather than the scarcely less erratic caprices of a sovereign. This is as true in modern Britain as it was in the petty courts of the ancien regime. None has a precise and unalterable policy. ![]() He had hopes, however, of ousting this lady from the monarch’s affection, and installing in her place one of his friends. IN some eighteenth-century diplomatic correspondence, I once found a letter from an ambassador at a small court, in which he explained to his sovereign that the treaty he had been instructed to arrange was being opposed by the King’s mistress. ![]()
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