George IVYale University Press, 1. 1. 1999 - Počet stran: 306 This biography of George IV, king between 1820 and 1830, provides a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavourable verdicts of the king's contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler responsible for the decline of the power and reputation of the monarchy in the early nineteenth century. Now E.A. |
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A Prince and his Education | 1 |
The Pursuit of Pleasure | 13 |
A Palace for a Prince | 25 |
Maria Fitzherbert | 33 |
Hopes Disappointed | 48 |
Clouds of War | 60 |
Caroline | 70 |
A Political Prince | 82 |
Seditious Subjects and Turbulent Wife | 167 |
Crowned without a Queen | 179 |
King of Three Dominions | 192 |
The Kings Servants | 205 |
The Invisible | 216 |
Constitutional Monarch | 226 |
The Royal Builder | 241 |
Patron and Collector | 253 |
The Royal Malady Again | 96 |
Changing Allegiances | 105 |
Brothers and Sisters | 121 |
Prince Regent | 132 |
A Glorious Victory 146 | 145 |
Rebellious Daughter | 155 |
The King in Seclusion | 266 |
I Father and Son | 277 |
GEORGE IVS CHILDREN | 289 |
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