Book description
The day the Prince of Wales set eyes on Maria Fitzherbert on the
towpath at Richmond, she was twice widowed and eminently appealing.
The Prince was in love. The more she resisted him, the more determined
he became.
The courtship of Mrs Fitzherbert, set against the backgrounds of the
Brighton Pavillion, the court at Windsor and Carlton House, was to
bring betrayal, scandal and the downfall of one of the greatest
politicians of the day.
It is a story full of the elegance and arrantry of the close of the
eighteenth century, peopled with characters like the wily Charles
James Fox, the coy Fanny Burney, and old George III, slowly descending
into madness, while the balladmongers sang...
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.
