Author: Valerie Irvine
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 184725053X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
a highly readable account of a love match that pre-echoes the later relationship of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
The King's Wife
Author: Valerie Irvine
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 184725053X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
a highly readable account of a love match that pre-echoes the later relationship of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 184725053X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
a highly readable account of a love match that pre-echoes the later relationship of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert
Author: Charles Langdale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fitzherbert, Maria Anne
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fitzherbert, Maria Anne
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV
Author: William Henry Wilkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriages of royalty and nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriages of royalty and nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Famous Affinities of History
Author: Lyndon Orr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
George IV
Author: Jonathan Marsden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909741607
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Queen's Galleries in London and Edinburgh, this book provides new insights into George IV as a collector. Although George led a life bounded by convention, he was a genuine connoisseur who was able to form an unrivalled collection of paintings, porcelain and furniture. These he presented and displayed in a series of architecturally adventurous spaces. His acquisitions continue to form the backdrop to royal ceremony, a legacy that is one of the principal pillars of today's magnificent Royal Collection.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909741607
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Queen's Galleries in London and Edinburgh, this book provides new insights into George IV as a collector. Although George led a life bounded by convention, he was a genuine connoisseur who was able to form an unrivalled collection of paintings, porcelain and furniture. These he presented and displayed in a series of architecturally adventurous spaces. His acquisitions continue to form the backdrop to royal ceremony, a legacy that is one of the principal pillars of today's magnificent Royal Collection.
Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV.
Author: William Henry Wilkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Prince of Pleasure
Author: Saul David
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780349110875
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy and good feeling that I ever saw in one character in my life', George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, later George IV, was a highly controversial figure. He courted both Whigs and Tories in his attempts to establish the Regency during the 'madness' of his father, George III. Scandalous liaisons with prostitutes and duchesses, and his 'secret' marriage to the Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, tested his duty - to nation and to family. Yet his support for overseas campaigns against Napoleon, culminating in such historic victories as Trafalgar and Waterloo, consolidated Britain's status as the pre-eminent world power amid the great social and economic upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on a wealth of original accounts of life in Georgian Britain, Saul David has created a masterly portrait - of a flamboyant, opportunistic and influential figure, and of a nation in a time of great change.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780349110875
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy and good feeling that I ever saw in one character in my life', George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, later George IV, was a highly controversial figure. He courted both Whigs and Tories in his attempts to establish the Regency during the 'madness' of his father, George III. Scandalous liaisons with prostitutes and duchesses, and his 'secret' marriage to the Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, tested his duty - to nation and to family. Yet his support for overseas campaigns against Napoleon, culminating in such historic victories as Trafalgar and Waterloo, consolidated Britain's status as the pre-eminent world power amid the great social and economic upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on a wealth of original accounts of life in Georgian Britain, Saul David has created a masterly portrait - of a flamboyant, opportunistic and influential figure, and of a nation in a time of great change.
The Wives of George IV
Author: Catherine Curzon
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1473897513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1473897513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV
Author: William Henry Wilkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriages of royalty and nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriages of royalty and nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Regency Portraits
Author: Richard John Boileau Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description