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A Royal Affair George III and his Troublesome Siblings

Stella Tillyard

Chatto and Windus 480pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 701 I 7306 8

This accomplished, well-grounded account of the eighteenth-century British royal family focuses on George III's sister Caroline Mathilde (1751-75). Married in 1766 at the age of fifteen to her cousin Christian VII of Denmark (1749-1808), in order to assist British and Hanoverian diplomatic interests, Caroline Mathilde was the only one of George's four sisters to marry into a royal family but she had a life very different from that of her sister-in-law, George's wife, Charlotte. Her youth and isolation, and the ...

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