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Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court Book

Courtiers Ambitious and talented people flocked to court in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. While its inhabitants were cocooned in comfort and splendour, successful courtiers had level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Full descriptionRead More

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    Ambitious and talented people flocked to court in search of power and prestige but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. While its inhabitants were cocooned in comfort and splendour successful courtiers had level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them a Vice Chamberlain with many vices a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage a pushy painter an alcoholic equerry a Wild Boy a penniless poet a dwarf comedian two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses. An eye-opening portrait of an enthralling group of royal servants "Courtiers" also throws new light on the dramatic life of George II and Queen Caroline: a lover murdered babies snatched horrific illnesses and tearful deathbed reconciliations.

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    In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives...Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. Successful courtiers needed level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.

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    Courtiers : Paperback : Faber & Faber : 9780571238903 : 0571238904 : 02 Jun 2011 : Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.

  • 0571238904
  • 9780571238903
  • Lucy Worsley
  • 2 June 2011
  • Faber & Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
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