The Elector was so urgent to be crown’d, that he hasten’d to _Konigsberg_, the capital City of _Prussia_, without staying for the fine Season of the Year; having fix’d on the 17th of _December_ for his Departure thither with the whole Court. My Mother would also have been one of the Company, but she was too far gone with Child. She was now marry’d to her third Husband, who was the Count _de Wesen_; and the Nuptials were perform’d at _Konigsberg_ in 1698, when the Elector was there about the Election of the King of _Poland_. This was a Match, in the making of which, neither Love nor Interest had the least share: M. _de Wesen_, tho’ come of a very good Family in the Duchy of _Zell_, was Heir but to a very small Estate, and that he was obliged to divide with a great many Brothers; and my Mother before he marry’d her had never so much as spoke to him, nor had she seen him but while he was in the Office of Chief Steward. The Elector himself made the Match at the solicitation of Madame _de Wartemberg_ who had a very great kindness for M. _Wesen_ formerly, and perhaps had so still, and by helping him to a rich Widow, she was willing to make him a recompence for the Respect he had paid to her. There was no necessity of using powerful Arguments with the Elector, to engage him to bring this Match about. It was his Foible to make Matches, and were they good or bad, provided he saw the Weddings, ’twas all alike to him. Consequently, as soon as Madame _de Wartemberg_ had proposed this Marriage to him, he promis’d to mention it himself to my Mother; nay, more than that, he came to her House and made the Proposal. My Mother desir’d to be excus’d, saying to his Highness, that she had been already married twice, that she had two Sons by her first Husband, and that she did not care to hazard their Interests and her own Peace by engaging herself in Matrimony a third time. The Elector made her answer, that he would have it so, and that her Children, so far from Losers, should be Gainers by it, because he would take care of them. He added that he would allow her twenty-four Hours time to consider of it, and then he left her, forbidding her to stir to the Door, and promising to come and see her again next day, in order to have her Answer. He then went into my Grandmother’s Chamber, and said so many fine things to her, in favor of the Son-in-Law he had in his eye for her, that she was for it by all means.