The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach. Matthew Dennison
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Название: The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach

Автор: Matthew Dennison

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

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isbn: 9780008122010

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       Copyright

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017

      Copyright © Matthew Dennison 2017

      Matthew Dennison asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Cover images Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017

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      Source ISBN: 9780008121990

      Ebook Edition © August 2017 ISBN: 9780008122010

      Version: 2018-08-20

       Dedication

      For Gráinne, with love

      ‘Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair … Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.’

      Song of Solomon

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Family Trees

       Epigraph

       Introduction

       Prologue: ‘Halliballoo!’

       PART ONE: GERMANY

       PART TWO: BRITAIN

       I Princess of Wales: ‘Majesty with Affability’

       II Leicester House: ‘Not a Day without Suffering’

       III Queen: ‘Constancy and Greatness’

       Afterword

       Acknowledgements

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Picture Section

       Index

       Also by Matthew Dennison

       About the Publisher

      

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       Epigraph

      ‘The darling pleasure of her soul was power.’

      Lord Hervey, Memoirs

      ‘She loved the real possession of power rather than the show of it, and whatever she did herself that was either wise or popular, she always desired that the King should have the full credit as well as the advantage of the measure, conscious that, by adding to his respectability, she was most likely to maintain her own.’

      Walter Scott on Caroline of Ansbach, The Heart of Midlothian, 1818

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