Kings of Georgian Britain

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