Book description
Young and idealistic, the Prince of Wales develops a deep affection
for a beautiful quakeress, Hannah Lightfoot, who catches his eye as he
is riding through the streets. A first meeting is arranged, leading to
several more, and eventually they discreetly marry in a secluded house
where they live as man and wife. She is prepared to betray her beliefs
for him, just as he is willing to defy the desires of various
courtiers for her. Eventually, his mother's lover Lord Bute uncovers
the affair and Hannah mysteriously disappears.
The novel explores the lasting question, did the future George III
contradict royal protocol and marry a commoner? Shortly after his
affair with Hannah, he becomes King George III. After a potential
engagement to Sarah Lennox falls through, he marries Princess
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
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.
