'It is purely an anomaly of fate,' Enoch says, 'that Gottfried, as a young man, lacking means, seeking a position – anything that would give him the simple freedom to work – landed in the court of an obscure German Duke. Who through intricate and tedious lacework of marryings, couplings, dyings, religious conversions, wars, revolutions, miscarriages, decapitations, congenital feeble-mindedness, excommunications, et cetera among Europe's elite – most notably, the deaths of all seventeen of Queen Anne's children – became first in line to the Throne of England and Scotland, or Great Britain as we're supposed to call it now.'