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Historical person
1683–1737
Caroline of Ansbach was queen consort of Great Britain as the wife of George II. Intelligent and politically engaged, she acted as regent during the king’s absences, supported Robert Walpole, patronised scholarship and helped manage the dynastic and court politics of the early Hanoverian monarchy.
Caroline of Ansbach also held the offices or ranks of Princess of Wales, Consort of Ireland, and Consort of Hanover. Caroline of Ansbach belonged to the House of Hohenzollern and operated within Holy Roman Empire; Kingdom of Great Britain. Caroline of Ansbach was born in Residenz Ansbach and died in St James's Palace.
Jean Plaidy’s Caroline, the Queen makes Caroline of Ansbach the principal figure, following her from German princess to queen and political partner of George II. Laura Purcell’s Mistress of the Court views her through Henrietta Howard, whose service in Caroline’s household and relationship with the future king reveal how carefully the princess managed access, reputation and influence. Tracy Borman’s King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant treats the same triangular relationship historically, emphasising Henrietta’s dependence on Caroline’s court even while she became George’s mistress. Antonia Hodgson’s A Death at Fountains Abbey and The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins use Caroline as part of the living political world behind their Georgian crimes, where royal favour, patronage and faction can determine whether an investigation remains private or becomes a matter of state.
Series
The Thomas Hawkins series follows a disgraced clergyman’s son and reluctant investigator through the criminal, political and imperial worlds of early Georgian Britain. Between 1727 and 1728, Hawkins and bookseller Kitty Sparks confront the Marshalsea debtors’ prison, the violence of the Bloody Code, court intrigue surrounding Queen Caroline,…
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The Georgian Saga follows the Hanoverian dynasty from George I and the divided household of George II to George III, the Regency and the accession of Victoria. The novels combine royal marriages, mistresses, succession disputes and parliamentary politics with the private tensions that shaped Britain’s eighteenth- and early…
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The Georgian Queens novels place royal women at the centre of Britain's Hanoverian monarchy. Queen of Bedlam follows Queen Charlotte and her daughters as George III's illness turns family life into a constitutional crisis. Mistress of the Court moves back to the Hanoverian accession, tracing Henrietta Howard and…
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The Waverley Novels are Walter Scott’s long sequence of historical romances, named after the anonymously published Waverley of 1814. The series moves across Scottish, English and continental European history, placing fictional protagonists between older systems of loyalty and the political, commercial and legal institutions replacing them. Scott’s characters…
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Non Fiction
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