The Strangest Family The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the H

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the H Product DescriptionAn intensely moving account of George IIIs doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer.George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional home lives of his Hanoverian predecessors. He was sure that as a faithful husband and a loving father, he would be not just a happier man but a better ruler as well.During the early part of his reign it seemed as if, against all the odds, his great family project was succeeding. His wife, Queen Charlotte, shared his sense of moral purpose, and together they raised their fifteen children in a climate of loving attention. But as the children grew older, and their wishes and desires developed away from those of their father, it became harder to maintain the illusion of domestic harmony.The Strangest Family is an epic, sprawling family drama, filled with intensely realised characters who leap off the page as we are led deep inside the private lives of the Hanoverians. Written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new voice in history writing, it is both a window on another world and a universal story that will resonate powerfully with modern readers.ReviewA masterpiece. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, this heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction and royal sacrifice is an absolute page-turner Amanda Foreman, author of GeorgianaEnthrallingyou know you are in the hands of a master narrator as well as a profoundly perceptive historian. And like all great historical writing, the book transcends its immediate storygripping and moving though that isto be a timeless reflection on the human condition Simon SchamaColourful and brilliantly narratedexcellent both in her narrative skill and her scholarshipHadlow has produced a perceptive, lively and wonderfully enjoyable book Miranda Seymour, Sunday TimesFascinatingin this densely detailed yet fast-paced book, as drama follows drama, the interest never flagsHadlow is adept at the telling phrase and makes splendid use of the period's vivid letters, diaries and memoirs Jenny Uglow, GuardianEngrossingHadlow, an accomplished storyteller, assembles a picture full of emotional colour and drama which still resonates today Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The TimesTruly engrossing. George III and his relatives give us the ultimate family saga, and it almost defies belief that these events really happened. A real-life period drama to lose yourself in Lucy WorsleyHadlow's achievement is to unite in a single volume an overview of one family's squabbling, thwarted good intentions and petty vindictivenessin readable prose, with a welter of detail Hadlow succeeds in her considerable taskThis is a discursive, leisurely account, enlivened by Hadlow's infectious enthusiasm Sunday TelegraphHadlows energetic, richly detailed debut combines personal sympathy for her subjects with a shrewd alertness to wider significances Independent on SundayAbout the AuthorJanice Hadlow is Controller of BBC2 and BBC4. In her previous roles as joint Head of History at the BBC and Head of History at Channel 4, she was responsible for commissioning some of the most influential history series of our time from, among others, Simon Schama, David Starkey and Niall Ferguson. This is her first book. Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. 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