Book description
The four Hanoverian King Georges may have become fixed in history
as 'faintly absurd, certainly unattractive, figures' but in this
colourful account of their lives and times, families and courts,
Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson restores a sprinkling of credit where
it has been due. His account does not neglect the marital discords of
George I, the towering paternal disdain of George II or the tragically
misunderstood 'madness' of George III. But the reader is also
encouraged to consider how the Hanoverian monarchs reacted to the
climate of art and fashion in their times, from George II's espousal
of Handel to George IV's patronage of Beau Brummell. By its own
admission not a comprehensive history, Blood Royal is nevertheless an
elegant and shining string of linked vignettes and short studies.
Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson was born in 1939, and educated at Eton
and St. John's, Cambridge. He has been an author (Faber Finds is
reissuing Inglorious Rebellion, Blood Royal and That Sweet Enemy),
publisher and is now a literary agent.
