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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Foreword Author’s Note PART ONE 1762–1794

1 Childhood and Education 1762–1778: ‘An extremely promising pupil’ 2 Mrs Robinson and Mme von Hardenburg 1778–1782: ‘A certain sort of ladies’ 3 Carlton House and Brooks’s 1782–1784: ‘A shameful squandering of public money’ 4 The Secret Marriage 1784–1786: ‘Mrs Fitzherbert is arrived in London for the Season’ 5 Brighton and Westminster 1786–1787: ‘A subject of the greatest delicacy’ 6 The King’s Illness 1787–1788: ‘An agitation of spirits nearly bordering on delirium’ 7 The Regency Crisis 1788–1789: ‘The Prince has taken command at Windsor’ 8 The King’s Recovery 1789: ‘The acrimony is beyond anything you can conceive’ 9 The Bottle and the Turf 1789–1791: ‘A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion’ 10 The Prince’s Brothers 1792–1793: ‘The common cause of all the Princes of Europe’ 11 Fresh Debts and New Mistresses 1793–1794: ‘Lady Jersey’s influence’

PART TWO 1794–1811

12 Princess Caroline 1794–1795: ‘There, dear brother, is a woman I do not recommend at all’ 13 The Second Wife 1795–1796: ‘It was like Macheath going to execution, and he was quite drunk’ 14 The Broken Marriage 1796: ‘The vilest wretch this world ever was cursed with’ 15 The Return of Mrs Fitzherbert 1796–1801: ‘You know you are my wife, the wife of my heart and soul’ 16 The King’s Relapse 1801–1804: ‘We sat till past eleven and the Prince talked the greater part of the time’ 17 The Delicate Investigation 1804–1806: ‘There was strange goings-on’ 18 Foxites and Pittites 1806–1809: ‘At the head of the Whig Party’ 19 Princess Charlotte and Minny Seymour 1806–1809: ‘How aimably polite and fascinating his manners are on his own ground’ 20 The Advent of Lady Hertford 1806–1809: ‘His father’s malady extends to him, only takes another turn’ 21 The Windsor Nunnery 1797–1810: ‘They were secluded from the world, mixing with few people’ 22 Approach to the Regency 1810–1811: ‘Mr Perceval has seen the King’

PART THREE 1811–1820

23 Whigs or Tories? 1811–1812: ‘The Prince is excessively nervous’ 24 An Adonis of Loveliness 1812–1814: ‘This (or else my eyesight fails), This should be the Prince of Whales’ 25 Princess Caroline 1812–1814: ‘The poor Princess is going on headlong to her ruin’ 26 Princess Charlotte 1812–1814: ‘If she were mine, I would lock her up’ 27 The Warwick House Affair 1814: ‘Like a bird let loose from its cage’ 28 Impresario, Collector and Patron 1814–1815: ‘The country will have cause to be grateful’ 29 Cranbourne Lodge and Claremont Park 1814–1817: ‘Is there any danger?’ 30 Royal Marriages 1815–1818: ‘The damnedest millstone about the necks of any government that can be imagined’ 31 Repasts and Riots 1818–1820: ‘The pomp and magnificence of a Persian satrap’ 32 The Milan Commission 1814–1820: ‘Two young and hot lovers could not have done as much’ 33 The Queen on Trial 1820: ‘No other subject is ever talked of’ 34 ‘The Queen For Ever!’ 1820: ‘The town is literally drunk with joy’

PART FOUR 1821–1830

35 Coronation 1821: ‘Of the splendour of the whole spectacle it is impossible for me to give you the slightest idea’ 36 Death of Queen Caroline 1821: ‘I am going to die, Mr Brougham; but it does not signify’ 37 Lady Conyngham and William Knighton 1820–1821: ‘The King desires Lord Liverpool distinctly to understand that whatever appointments the King may think proper to make in his own family, they are to be considered as quite independent of the control of any Minister whatever’ 38 A Continental Journey 1821: ‘At table we heard of nothing but Hannover’ 39 A New Foreign Secretary 1822–1823: ‘The damnedest fellow in the world’ 40 Palace and Castle 1823–1826: ‘England ought to pride herself on her plainness and simplicity’ 41 The Windsor Recluse 1826–1827: ‘It is unpleasant for him to see a strange face’ 42 The Tory Revolt 1827: ‘There never was anything like the bitterness of the ultras against Mr Canning’ 43 Protestants and Catholics 1827–1829: ‘The most Protestant man in his dominions’ 44 The Final Years 1829–1830: ‘A bold man, afraid of nothing if his Ministers would stand by him, and certainly neither afraid of pain or death’ 45 The Last Illness 1830: ‘We have an Herculean constitution to work upon’ 46 Post Mortem: ‘Un roi grand seigneur’

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