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George IV

Author: E A Smith
Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©1999.
Series: Yale English monarchs.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: George, King of Great Britain; George, King of Great Britain.
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: E A Smith
ISBN: 0300076851 9780300076851 0300088027 9780300088021
OCLC Number: 40193566
Description: xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A Prince and his Education --
The Pursuit of Pleasure --
A Palace for a Prince --
Maria Fitzherbert --
Hopes Disappointed --
Clouds of War --
Caroline --
A Political Prince --
The Royal Malady Again --
Changing Allegiances --
Brothers and Sisters --
Prince Regent --
A Glorious Victory --
Rebellious Daughter --
Seditious Subjects and Turbulent Wife --
Crowned without a Queen --
King of Three Dominions --
The King's Servants --
'The Invisible' --
Constitutional Monarch --
The Royal Builder --
Patron and Collector --
The King in Seclusion --
George IV's Children.
Series Title: Yale English monarchs.
Other Titles: George the 4th
George the Fourth
Responsibility: E.A. Smith.

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