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- 2002
- year of publication
- 1
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- robinson
- ISBN-13
- 978-18-4119-616-9
- EAN
- 9781841196169
- Publication date
- 2002-10-18
- Book
- Maria Fitzherbert · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition
The affair of George IV and Maria Fitzherbert is notorious. A young Catholic widow became the secret wife of the heir to the throne because she had refused to become his mistress. Munson reveals a genuine love story between the spoilt, egocentric prince and the older woman who brought peace and order to his life of restlessness and excess; resulting in a marriage that defied English law and broke all the rules of monarchy. Two themes dominate - the love of a kind-hearted woman for a charming but faithless prince, and the perilous state of the monarchy.