A ROYAL AFFAIR: George III and his Troublesome Siblings.
Pp. xiv+386, 16 plates (13 coloured), full page map, family trees, notes, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. First edition. *At the heart of Stella Tillyard's story is Caroline Mathilde, who married the mad Christian of Denmark in her teens but fell in love with the royal doctor Struensee: A terrible fate awaited them. Around this tragedy weave the dramas of the rakish Duke of York; of the Duke of Cumberland, caught up in a notorious divorce; and the Duke of Clarence, secretly married, to the fury of the King. Desperate for control, George constructed the Royal Marriage Act, which still bedevils the royal family today' [wrapper blurb]. Item #179557
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