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"There are two types of British queens," says Columbia University historian David Cannadine."Those who hold the position strictly as wife of the king, and those (few) who have ruled as sovereign in absence of a male heir." Queen Caroline, who briefly held title when King George IV was crowned in 1820 is numbered among the former. Vulgar, selfish, and undisciplined, she fled from the husband she hated and became nearly as well known for her promiscuity as King George IV himself. Viewed by the public as a wronged woman, she survived George's attempts to dissolve the marriage, but opinion turned against her and she died in 1821. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The predicament of a rejected royal spouse denied her crown by an openly adulterous husband on grounds of her own flagrant adultery has contemporary resonances. The adventures of Queen Caroline have often been recounted, but Fraser (Emma, Lady Hamilton) has done more archival homework than past biographers, and her version will intrigue more than Charles-and-Di voyeurs. Caroline's introduction to adultery, the queen herself contended, occurred between the conjugal sheets. The foppish future George IV was already illegally wed to a Roman Catholic widow, Maria Fitzherbert. Once the royal couple?first cousins?conceived a legal heiress, only days into the marriage, the Prince of Wales abandoned his wife for his mistresses. Sexually frustrated, socially snubbed and parsimoniously financed, his unsophisticated and uneducated bride from Brunswick lapsed into reckless and disreputable conduct, "a depraved woman but an injured wife," in the words of a Windsor observer. Meanness incarnate, Prince George tried for two decades and more to shed her, even after their only child, Charlotte, died in childbirth, leaving no heirs except George's dissolute brothers, none of whom had legal children. The suit for divorce, played out in Parliament, is a page-turner. Although the biography opens melodramatically with Coronation Day, it slips into lackluster prose to record the sordid beginnings of the relationship, gaining momentum only as the determined Caroline plays the game of getting even with one of the most unsavory occupants of the British throne. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"There are two types of British queens," says Columbia University historian David Cannadine."Those who hold the position strictly as wife of the king, and those (few) who have ruled as sovereign in absence of a male heir." Queen Caroline, who briefly held title when King George IV was crowned in 1820 is numbered among the former. Vulgar, selfish, and undisciplined, she fled from the husband she hated and became nearly as well known for her promiscuity as King George IV himself. Viewed by the public as a wronged woman, she survived George's attempts to dissolve the marriage, but opinion turned against her and she died in 1821. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The predicament of a rejected royal spouse denied her crown by an openly adulterous husband on grounds of her own flagrant adultery has contemporary resonances. The adventures of Queen Caroline have often been recounted, but Fraser (Emma, Lady Hamilton) has done more archival homework than past biographers, and her version will intrigue more than Charles-and-Di voyeurs. Caroline's introduction to adultery, the queen herself contended, occurred between the conjugal sheets. The foppish future George IV was already illegally wed to a Roman Catholic widow, Maria Fitzherbert. Once the royal couple?first cousins?conceived a legal heiress, only days into the marriage, the Prince of Wales abandoned his wife for his mistresses. Sexually frustrated, socially snubbed and parsimoniously financed, his unsophisticated and uneducated bride from Brunswick lapsed into reckless and disreputable conduct, "a depraved woman but an injured wife," in the words of a Windsor observer. Meanness incarnate, Prince George tried for two decades and more to shed her, even after their only child, Charlotte, died in childbirth, leaving no heirs except George's dissolute brothers, none of whom had legal children. The suit for divorce, played out in Parliament, is a page-turner. Although the biography opens melodramatically with Coronation Day, it slips into lackluster prose to record the sordid beginnings of the relationship, gaining momentum only as the determined Caroline plays the game of getting even with one of the most unsavory occupants of the British throne. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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