Book description
When Caroline of Ansbach arrives in England, King George is old and
sour, his mistress ugly and his wife imprisoned at his own hand for
over twenty years. She has grown up watching her mother Eleanor's
loveless and dangerous marriage, and is determined to avoid a similar
situation. So she marries the Prince of Wales, George Augustus, and
they are popular among the people, leading the King to resent them.
In what will become typical Hanoverian style, father and son loathe
each other and exist in a state of constant competition for power. She
quickly realizes that her husband is unintelligent and sees that she
will be able to control him to some extent. Despite plenty of
obstacles, including her father-in-law's control of her children, she
refuses to lose sight of her aims.
Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for
most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English
author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's
novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her
death in 1993.
