Before he left to spend Christmas in The Hague, he did all that he could to reassure Charlotte. When they were married, he told her, he would never insist that she came with him every time he went to Holland. Perhaps she would only need to come for two or three weeks in each year, and since by then she would have her own household, she could of course bring all her ladies with her. For Charlotte it was enough for now. At least the Dutch Prince was being honest with her. Her real rage was with her father, who had trapped her into a quick decision without telling her what it entailed. She was sure that in the long run she could rely on her Whig friends to advise and protect her. They would never allow their future queen to leave the country against her will. And in the short run, marriage with the latest William of Orange was still the only available key to freedom and a household of her own. But it looks as though she was trying a bit too hard to persuade herself that the price was reasonable.
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