The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians. Janice Hadlow

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      First published in Great Britain by William Collins 2014

      Copyright © Janice Hadlow 2014

      Janice Hadlow asserts the moral right to

      be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is

      available from the British Library

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      Cover image: Queen Charlotte, 1779 (oil on canvas) by West, Benjamin (1738–1820)/Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2015/Bridgeman Images

      Source ISBN: 9780007165193

      Ebook Edition © August 2014 ISBN: 9780008102203

      Version: 2015-06-29

      George III, Queen Charlotte and six princesses (watercolour, attributed to William Rought)

      FOR MARTIN, ALEXANDER AND LOUIS,

      AND FOR MY PARENTS, WHO DID NOT LIVE TO READ IT

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Frontispiece

       Dedication

       Author’s Note

       Epigraphs

       Family Tree

       Prologue

       1 The Strangest Family

       2 A Passionate Partnership

       3 Son and Heir

       4 The Right Wife

       5 A Modern Marriage

       6 Fruitful

       7 Private Lives

       8 A Sentimental Education

       9 Numberless Trials

       10 Great Expectations

       11 An Intellectual Malady

       12 Three Weddings

       13 The Wrong Lovers

       14 Established

       Notes

       Picture Section

       Illustration Credits

       Bibliography

       Acknowledgements

       Index

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

      WHEN QUEEN CHARLOTTE WAS ASKED by the artist, botanist and diarist Mrs Delany why she had appointed the writer Fanny Burney to the post of assistant dresser in her household, she answered with characteristic clarity: ‘I was led to think of Miss Burney first by her books, then by seeing her, then by hearing how much she was loved by her friends, but chiefly by her friendship for you.’ If questioned about why I wrote this book, I am not sure I could answer with such confident precision. In one sense, it simply crept up on me, emerging from a long love affair with the period and


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