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Article: Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge--Steadfast Son of King George III, 1774-1850.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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Grace E. Moremen. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge--Steadfast Son of King George III, 1774-1850. (Studies in British History, Vol. 71.) Lewiston, N. Y: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2002. Pp. xxxvii, 442. $139.95. ISBN 0-7734-6836-6.
Grace Moremen's biography of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge is a significant revision of Whig and Radical views of the sons of George III. Shelley's description of them as "princes, the dregs of thy dull race" who "leach like to their fainting country cling" was equaled in scorn by the Tory Duke of Wellington who described them as "the damndest millstones about the neck of any government than can be imagined." Wellington, ...