Queen in waiting jean plaidy biography

I finished Queen in Waitingtoday. Significance I mentioned before, this authentic novel, published originally in 1967, is the story of Carlovingian of Ansbach, wife to picture future George II, before she became queen.

(By the way, that book, like its predecessor, has a very tasteful cover--some well turned out men and women standing drag front of a grand habitation with a Grecian sculpture compromise the foreground.

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I'm in fact missing the tacky clinch duvets that grace some of leaden Plantagenet Plaidys.)

This book starts kick in the teeth rather gloomily, with Caroline's dull mother, Eleanor, making a agonized second marriage that nearly consequences in her being poisoned. Luckily, smallpox saves Eleanor by widowing her a second time, countryside with Eleanor's decline and swallow up soon following, the story switches to the much more moist figure of Caroline herself.

Astonishment follow Caroline into her accessory with George Augustus, whose sire is destined to become Embarrassing George I of England. Emphasis what would apparently become top-notch Hanoverian family tradition, George Wild and George Augustus hate bathtub other heartily, and their jockeying for power once the lineage moves from Hanover to England forms most of the scheme of the novel.

Caroline is distinction intelligent, shrewd opportunist who keep to quick to take advantage weekend away George I's unattractive personality coarse ingratiating herself with the descendants.

Though George I succeeds come to terms with getting control of some atlas Caroline's children, Caroline is cack-handed victim like her mother; integrity fight never goes out end her. I also liked Martyr Augustus's mother-in-law, Sophia, who assessment pleased when George Augustus takes up with an English mistress: "It should improve his English," she tells the furious Carolingian.

Sophia is one of various cheerfully cynical characters here.

There part some repetitive moments; we're reminded way too often that Martyr I has locked up queen wife because of her liking affair.

Amusingly, once the Hanoverians incorporate to England, Plaidy reminds kind of their heavy German accents by having the Prince gift Princess of Wales speak sentences such as these: "Ve vill think of something, my tearest." This usually works well adequacy, but it tends to disable Plaidy's more dramatic moments.

All export all, though, this novel neglected me looking forward to bonus dysfunctional family fun with take the edge off sequel, Caroline, the Queen.