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The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses Hardcover – 14 Sept. 2020
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- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPen & Sword History
- Publication date14 Sept. 2020
- Dimensions15.88 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-10147389753X
- ISBN-13978-1473897533
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- Publisher : Pen & Sword History (14 Sept. 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 147389753X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1473897533
- Dimensions : 15.88 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 870,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 2,341 in Women in History
- 3,011 in British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies
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About the author
Catherine Curzon is a historian of old Hollywood and even older royalty. As one half of Ellie Curzon (with Helen Barrell), her World War Two sagas for Bookouture and Orion have become bestsellers.
Catherine has appeared on Radio 4’s PM programme and Dan Snow’s Story of England, as well as radio stations across Europe and the UK. Her work has been featured online by BBC News, BBC History Extra and The Daily Express, and in publications including All About History and Who Do You Think You Are?. Further afield, Catherine’s expertise has been featured by Smithsonian Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, Town & Country, Elle Australia, Der Bund, La Vanguardia and Metrópoles, among others.
She has spoken at venues including Kenwood House, Wellington College, the Royal Pavilion, the National Maritime Museum and Dr Johnson’s House.
Catherine holds a Master’s degree in Film and when not cheering for the Terriers, can be found by following the distant strains of Dean Martin. She lives in Yorkshire atop a ludicrously steep hill with a rakish gent and a very woolly dog. Follow her on Twitter @MadameGilflurt.
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I love that there is a movement in the historical world to shine a spotlight on the supporting cast of well-known characters. As we all know George III was known for his madness and his wayward sons but what of his daughters? George and his wife had 15 surviving children, a great feat in the Georgian era, and six of them were daughters: Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia. Their childhoods' are all similar, growing up trained to be perfect princesses, with a view to marring highly, into a very loving family. However, as their father's illness begins to flare, their futures are neglected and their mother hangs onto them desperately, to the extent they become prisoners trapped in what they nicknamed “the nunnery”. The daughters might be trapped in “The Nunnery” but it started out from a place of love. George was determined to make sure that the terrible fate of his sister Caroline Matilda never became that of his daughters. Only one daughter managed to escape before the slightly ajar door slammed shut (although she was not a spring chicken) and the other married either extremely late in life or not at all. Curzon explores each princess's life, within which we discover depression, desperation, isolation, illegitimate children, love from a distance, author of published books, illness, and perhaps secret marriages.
Each princess is as interesting as the last and interestingly to me they are the aunts of Queen Victoria. This is of interest because there are similarities that can be made between Queen Victoria and her children and the daughters of George III and their mother. Like Queen Victoria, Queen Charlotte was strict with the children, though more tender, but when George became sick as did Victoria after the death of Albert, Charlotte held unhealthily onto her daughters, expecting them to care for her and not to live their own lives. Likewise, each daughter's reaction to this situation can be glimpsed in those of Victoria. For example, we have Victoria's, Princess Louise, who has similarities with the artistic child of Charlotte's Princess Elizabeth that published her works in books, etc.
Curzon has done a fantastic job of creating this highly researched book. Though many events overlap they are not repetitive and as we move from one sister to the next previous backspaces are filled. The princess's voices come across in a very human way. My only quibble would be that every now and again the author's remarks informing the reader that in today's world this would be shocking... but it's personal taste and it certainly isn't enough to downgrade any stars from this book. Please read this book, these princesses are wonderful and their stories are those of survival in extraordinary circumstances. Now I'll have to look out other works by Curzon.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, Pen and Sword, for an E-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.