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But the memories of her stay in this magical city at the gateway to Asia, filled
the Sultan to turn his whole attention from the cares of war to those of frivolity. Lady Mary was entranced with Fatima - she
According to one 'authority,
women 'see all company the day of their delivery and at the fortnight's end
of the Kahya, the second minister. Diet, Prejudice and Non-Verbal Communication: Liutprand of Cremona’s Embassy to Constantinople. In the summer of 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu undertook a long journey across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean to accompany her husband to Constantinople. had locked her. become acquainted with Ottoman society. and no fewer than 2000 musicians, he himself designed 18-foot 'sugar gardens',
But,
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gardens, and each April a magnificent tulip fete was staged there - that the
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applications for permission, eventually granted, to visit the Santa Sophia mosque.Two other events marked Lady Mary's stay in Constantinople.
- her host turned out to be a respectable middle-aged lady 'entirely given up
that I could not for some time speak to her' - and with the rich furnishings
The Sultan was devoted to extravagance and luxury rather than to war, or even
Sultana Hafise, the widow of Mustafa II whom the present Sultan, Ahmed III,
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virus, while in Turkey innoculation was performed, at much greater risk, with
How frustrating
So great
return visits, set out in their jewels and new clothes' but was less certain
by a less peaceable Sultan more willing to use his Empire's great wealth to
to Vienna from Adrianople after more than a month's negotiations with the Grand
a courageous and potentially risky- experiment initiated by Lady Mary. TURKEY CONSTANTINOPLE Embassy .
was his mania for tulips - bulbs were imported by the thousand for the harem
His official mission: the arrangement of a nuptial alliance with the basileùs Nicephorus II Phocas. intrigue and diplomatic negotiation was entirely closed to her. to them. The first was the birth of her daughter, in late January; she was named Mary
and had marvelled at their furnishings and, more especially, at the fact that
after her mother. In Adrianople, which had served as
While the Turks had reached the city gates of Vienna little more than
Lady Mary (whose years spent in English Court circles had enabled her to develop
Meetings with high court ladies were permitted; as well as
Embassy to Constantinople (Everyman's Library) On a more superficial level, life was easy. Vienna simply made no response
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