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Rebel Queen: How the Trial of Caroline Brought England to the Brink of Revolution

Autor Jane Robins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2007
It was Lady Jersey, the calculating mistress of the foppish George IV, who chose Caroline, Princess of Brunswick, to become George's wife. She selected a woman 'with indelicate manners . . . and not very inviting appearance', and George, who hadn't taken the precaution of meeting his wife before marrying her, was suitably disgusted. In 1797, just three years after their marriage, the couple separated with George writing to his wife that neither of them should 'be held answerable to the other'. Caroline took him at his word and proceeded to live exactly as she pleased, departing for Europe and a life of scandalous associations and debauched parties. Rumours of Caroline's lifestyle soon reached George and, although he was no stranger to indiscretion himself, he determined that she would never become Queen. To the shock of the nation, he demanded that Caroline face a trial for adultery. The voice of the popular press in Britain, raised in anger for the first time in Britain, roared in disapproval at her humiliation and Caroline's unlikely role as a heroine of Radical feeling was assured. Jane Robins re-creates this extraordinary morality tale in vivid and entertaining fashion, revealing a little-known story of surprising modernity that sheds new light on a revolution that might have been.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743478267
ISBN-10: 0743478266
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 8pp colour pictures
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 193 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
Locul publicării:United States

Descriere

The extraordinary story of how the wife of George IV was tried by Parliament for adultery -- making her a figurehead for anti-government feeling and nearly sparking revolution in Britain.