Charles Woodcock

Charles Burger Woodcock ( born May 1, 1850 in New York City; † June 26, 1923 ibid ), who was appointed only to Baron Charles Woodcock - Savage and later Charles Savage called, the lover of the elder by a few decades of King Charles was I of Württemberg.

Life and work

Charles Woodcock was born in New York, the son of Jonas Gurnee Woodcock (1822-1908) and Sarah Savage Woodcock ( 1824-1893 ). He went abroad to study, and found a job as a chamberlain at the court of Württemberg, where he became the favorite of the king, who had already had several male lovers. In 1888, led his privileged position with the King and his impact on personal and political decisions, of the political head of the Kingdom of Württemberg, in particular Prime Minister Hermann von Wed night, forced his departure abroad. Shortly before him the king had appointed yet for " Baron von Woodcock - Savage ". From there, he extorted a severance payment of 300,000 marks with both public and private correspondence that had given him and he took the king. In New York he took the last name " Savage " at.

On 14 June 1894 he married a widow, Henrietta Knebel Staples, who brought four children into the marriage. On June 19, 1897 all her sons (Joseph, Harry, Herbert and Leslie Curtis) changed their last name legally to Savage. Leslie Curtis changed beyond his first name to Charles.

In 1906 he published under the title A Lady in Waiting excerpts from the diary of Julie de Chesnil, a former maid of Queen Marie Antoinette. He dedicated it to a noble soul, he knew, loved and mourned: ie the beloved king, who had died in 1891. The introduction gives a fictional account of the circumstances of the discovery of the diary of Julie de Chesnil whose yellowed pages were found in a sealed secret compartment of a Louis Seize cabinet, which had been bought at the auction house Hôtel Drouot by the translator and a dear friend from Paris days, an esthete who had given permission for publication. The memoirs, which were published in this framework, are in fact a fictional pseudo - autobiography Woodcocks.

Swell

• Central State Archive Stuttgart, E 75 ( Württemberg Legation in Munich) Bu 6 (press discussions Betr. Baron von Woodcock - Savage, 1888)
• Sending of the Messenger in Munich by the Bavarian Major zD Baron passed by the Heydte papers from the estate of the former bank manager Colin L., Re the American Woodcock Savage. Central State Archive Stuttgart, E 55