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Author | : Catherine Curzon |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2022-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473897513 |
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The scandalous life of George IV is revealed in this account of his marriage to Princess Caroline and his secret union with a longtime mistress. In Georgian England, few men were more eligible than the Prince of Wales. The heir to George III’s throne would seem to be an excellent catch. Though the two women who married him might beg to differ. Maria Fitzherbert was a twice-widowed Roman Catholic with a natural aversion to trouble. When she married the prince in a secret ceremony, she opened the door on three decades of heartbreak. Cast aside by her husband one minute, pursued by him tirelessly the next, Maria’s clandestine marriage was anything but blissful. It was also the worst kept secret in England. Caroline of Brunswick was George’s official bride. Little did she know that her husband was marrying for money. When she arrived for the ceremony, she found him so drunk that he couldn’t even walk to the altar. Caroline might not have her husband’s love, but the public adored her. In a world where radicalism was stirring, it was a recipe for disaster. In The Wives of George IV, Maria and Caroline navigate the choppy waters of marriage to the capricious, womanizing king-in-waiting. With a queen on trial for adultery and the succession itself in the balance, Britain had never seen scandal like it.
Author | : Joanna Richardson |
Publisher | : London : Cape |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : M. J. Levy |
Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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The story of George IV's relationships with five women - the actress Mary Robinson, the Catholic Maria Fitzherbert, Lady Jersey, the arch-Tory Lady Hertford, and Lady Conyngham, the companion of his final years
Author | : Diane Haeger |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2001-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0312274777 |
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A fictional portrait of Maria Fitzherbert chronicles the passionate love affair and secret wedding of King George IV with a beautiful Catholic woman whose marriage was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church but not by English law.
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 851 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250102790 |
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Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending on his homes, his clothes, and his women; his patronage of the arts; his 'illegal' marriage to Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, and lesser known facts such as his generous charity donations andhis witty one-liners, including one he uttered when he met his bride-to-be (Caroline of Brunswick) for the first time: 'Harris, I am not well, fetch me a brandy.' George IV was the son of George III (whowent insane and inspired 'The Madness of King George') and was the founder of the prestigiousKing's College in London.
Author | : James Munson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2017-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781786080417 |
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Maria Fitzherbert became famous when in 1785 she secretly and illegally married the heir to the throne, later King George IV. Maria had already been twice widowed. Sympathetic biographers presented her as a much abused and almost saintly woman who was used, betrayed and taken up again by a fickle and mentally unstable Prince.
Author | : Valerie Irvine |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2007-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826431429 |
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One of the most extraordinary episodes in British royal history took place on 15 December 1785 when George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and George IV) secretly married the beautiful, twice-widowed and Roman Catholic Maria Fitzherbert. This marriage was in breach of the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 but was almost certainly valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church, and possibly of all Christian churches. If it had been discovered, George might well have forfeited his claim to the throne. As it was, George and Maria remained together for over twenty-five years, staying deeply attached, despite George's disastrous (and probably bigamous) marriage to Princess Caroline of Brunswick. The King's Wife is a highly readable account of a love match that, in part, pre-echoes the later relationship of Prince Charles and Camilla. In the eyes of George IV's own family, Maria was his real wife.
Author | : Alison Weir |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802198759 |
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A “brilliantly written and meticulously researched” biography of royal family life during England’s second Tudor monarch (San Francisco Chronicle). Either annulled, executed, died in childbirth, or widowed, these were the well-known fates of the six queens during the tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England from 1509 to 1547. But in this “exquisite treatment, sure to become a classic” (Booklist), they take on more fully realized flesh and blood than ever before. Katherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time. “Combin[ing] the accessibility of a popular history with the highest standards of a scholarly thesis”, Alison Weir draws on the entire labyrinth of Tudor history, employing every known archive—early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports—to bring vividly to life the fates of the six queens, the machinations of the monarch they married and the myriad and ceaselessly plotting courtiers in their intimate circle (The Detroit News). In this extraordinary work of sound and brilliant scholarship, “at last we have the truth about Henry VIII’s wives” (Evening Standard).
Author | : Flora Fraser |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 701 |
Release | : 2012-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1408832542 |
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'Splendid ... her book does justice to a fascinating woman who was tragic, brave, likable, humorous, and indeed, unruly' Spectator 'Written with elegance, wit and a narrative zest that novelists might envy' Economist At the heart of the extravagant Regency period – nine scandalous, politically fascinating years from 1811 to 1820 – lies the bitter mismatch between the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince Regent, later George IV, separated privately from Caroline of Brunswick within a year of their marriage in 1795. The couple remained separated until Queen Caroline's death in 1821, but the mockery of their marriage resisted the most strenuous efforts to dissolve it. Barred from the Regent's court, Queen Caroline travelled through Europe with a small court of her own. The story of The Unruly Queen – a long, courageous fight by an extraordinary individual to see justice done in the face of overbearing authority – is compellingly told by Flora Fraser. This astonishing book culminates with the Queen's House of Lords trial for adultery and exclusion from her bigamous husband's coronation.
Author | : Janice Hadlow |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2014-11-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0805096566 |
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"Originally published as The strangest family in the U.K. in 2014 by William Collins"--Title page verso.