The youthful maid, wife, and widow, Lady Ogle, remained at Amsterdam (whither she had gone, some persons said _fled_), after her marriage with Thynne, until the three of his murderers, who had been executed, had expiated their crime, as far as human justice was concerned, upon the scaffold. She then returned to England; but the young lady did not ‘appear public,’ as the phrase went, for six or seven weeks, and when she did so, it was found that she had just married Charles Seymour, third Duke of Somerset--a match which made one of two silly persons and a couple of colossal fortunes. This red-haired lady died in the fifty-sixth year of her age, A.D. 1722; and the duke, then sixty-four, found speedy consolation for his loss in a marriage with the youthful Lady Charlotte Finch, who was at once his wife, nurse, and secretary. It is said of her, that she one day, in the course of conversation, tapped her husband familiarly on the shoulder with her fan; whereupon that amiable gentleman indignantly cried out: ‘Madam, my first wife was a Percy, and she never took such a liberty!’ Königsmark, whose fate was so bound up with that of Sophia Dorothea, left England with his brother, and like his brother, he led an adventurous and roving life, never betraying any symptom of the Christian spirit of the religion of the Church of England, of which he first tasted what little could be found in Major Foubert’s riding-school. A portion of his time was spent at Hamburg with his mother and two sisters. His renown was sufficient for a cavalier who loved to live splendidly; and when he appeared at the Court of Hanover, in search of military employment, he was welcomed as cavaliers are who are so comfortably endowed. In 1688 we first hear of him in the electoral capital, bearing arms under the Elector and a guest at the table of George Louis and Sophia Dorothea. This was a year after the birth of the second and last child of that ill-matched couple. CHAPTER VII. KÖNIGSMARK AT COURT. Various accomplishments of Count Philip Christopher Königsmark--The early companion of Sophia Dorothea--Her friendship for him--An interesting interview--Intrigues of Madame von Platen--Foiled in her machinations--A dramatic incident--The unlucky glove--Scandal against the honour of the princess--A mistress enraged on discovery of her using rouge--Indiscretion of the princess--Her visit to Zell--The Elector’s criminal intimacy with Madame von der Schulenburg--William the Norman’s brutality to his wife--The elder Aymon--Brutality of the Austrian Empress to ‘Madame Royale’--Return of Sophia, and reception by her husband.