Kings of Georgian Britain by Curzon, Catherine -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Act One: George I

The Making of a Monarch The Trouble with Uncles Sons Divided Mothers, Marriages and Miniatures The Birth of an Electorate The Elephant and the Maypole The Disappearing Nobleman A Future King? Mother Makes Trouble The Death of a Queen The Coronation Riots A Very Social Court The South Sea Bubble Goes Pop A Crown Divided Family Affairs The Wild Boy Dying to Visit Hanover

Act Two: George II

An Absent Mother Monsieur de Busch Goes to Court Meeting the Mistress A Trip to England The Son They Left Behind A Man of Action Domestic Discord The Uneasy Peace A Happy Interlude Walpole’s Ruse Trouble at Home The Search for a Princess ‘A deaf, peevish old beast’ A Game of Mistresses and Ladders A New Princess A Flight by Moonlight Broken-Hearted Choosing a Mistress War and Rebellion The Death of Fred To Do His Utmost The Butcher’s Ruin The King is Dead

Act Three: George III

‘A boy in England born, in England bred’ A Fine Pair of Lordly Legs Sophie, Frederica, Sarah and Charlotte The Gentle Shepherd So Many Governments, So Little Time Brothers Banished Death of a Dowager Drama in Denmark The Trouble with Tea The Fallen Idol A Family in Mourning The Land of the Free An Assassination Hat Trick Revolution The Mad King Domestic Disputes and Dead Valets Losing Amelia The Windsor Years

Act Four: George IV

The Son and Heir An Eye for the Ladies A Political Prince Scandalous Secrets The Regency Bill From Brighton to Jersey A Monstrous Marriage Who’s the Mummy? The Regent Sepulchral Diversions A Family at War Assassins on Pall Mall ‘They’ll not Peterloo us again …’ Caroline’s Continental Sunset A Coronation Humiliation A Coronation Celebration ‘This is Death’

Afterword Bibliography Plate section