A Royal Experiment
eBook - ePub

A Royal Experiment

The Private Life of King George III

  1. 704 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Royal Experiment

The Private Life of King George III

About this book

This groundbreaking royal biography offers "a fascinating, story-filled account" of King George III's radical—and doomed—pursuit of familial happiness ( The Guardian, UK).
King George III of Great Britain was determined to be different from his Hanoverian predecessors. Neither of the previous Georges was faithful to his wife, and both hated their own sons. Overall, their children were angry, jealous, and disaffected schemers, whose palace shenanigans made for royal embarrassment and salacious scandals.
Pained by his childhood amid this cruel and feuding family, George came to the throne aspiring to be a new kind of king—a force for moral good. And to be that new kind of king, he had to be a new kind of man. Against his irresistibly awful family background—of brutal royal intrigue, infidelity, and betrayal—George fervently pursued a radical domestic dream: he would have a faithful marriage and raise loving, educated, and resilient children.
In this acclaimed biography, Janice Hadlow shares a vivid and revelatory account of King George, Queen Charlotte, and their fifteen children as they struggled to undo generations of bitter dysfunction and pursue a passion for family.
A Times and Sunday Times Best Books of the Year

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Contents
  5. Epigraph
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Family Tree
  8. Prologue
  9. 1 The Strangest Family
  10. 2 A Passionate Partnership
  11. 3 Son and Heir
  12. 4 The Right Wife
  13. 5 A Modern Marriage
  14. 6 Fruitful
  15. 7 Private Lives
  16. 8 A Sentimental Education
  17. 9 Numberless Trials
  18. 10 Great Expectations
  19. 11 An Intellectual Malady
  20. 12 Three Weddings
  21. 13 The Wrong Lovers
  22. 14 Established
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. Illustration Credits
  27. Index
  28. Photos
  29. About the Author
  30. Copyright