Matthew Dennison - The First Iron Lady - A Life of Caroline of Ansbach

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Family Trees Epigraph Introduction Prologue: ‘Halliballoo!’ PART ONE: GERMANY I Princess of Ansbach: ‘Bred up in the softness of a Court’ II Electoral Princess: ‘The affections of the heart’ PART TWO: BRITAIN I Princess of Wales: ‘Majesty with Affability’ II Leicester House: ‘Not a Day without Suffering’ III Queen: ‘Constancy and Greatness’ Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Picture Section Index Also by Matthew Dennison About the Publisher

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Copyright © Matthew Dennison 2017

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Ebook Edition © August 2017 ISBN: 9780008122010

Version: 2018-08-20

For Gráinne, with love

‘Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair … Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.’

Song of Solomon

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Title Page Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Family Trees Epigraph Introduction Prologue: ‘Halliballoo!’ PART ONE: GERMANY I Princess of Ansbach: ‘Bred up in the softness of a Court’ II Electoral Princess: ‘The affections of the heart’ PART TWO: BRITAIN I Princess of Wales: ‘Majesty with Affability’ II Leicester House: ‘Not a Day without Suffering’ III Queen: ‘Constancy and Greatness’ Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Picture Section Index Also by Matthew Dennison About the Publisher

Copyright Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Family Trees Epigraph Introduction Prologue: ‘Halliballoo!’ PART ONE: GERMANY I Princess of Ansbach: ‘Bred up in the softness of a Court’ II Electoral Princess: ‘The affections of the heart’ PART TWO: BRITAIN I Princess of Wales: ‘Majesty with Affability’ II Leicester House: ‘Not a Day without Suffering’ III Queen: ‘Constancy and Greatness’ Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Picture Section Index Also by Matthew Dennison About the Publisher William Collins An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.WilliamCollinsBooks.com This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017 Copyright © Matthew Dennison 2017 Matthew Dennison asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Cover images Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780008121990 Ebook Edition © August 2017 ISBN: 9780008122010 Version: 2018-08-20

Dedication Dedication Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Family Trees Epigraph Introduction Prologue: ‘Halliballoo!’ PART ONE: GERMANY I Princess of Ansbach: ‘Bred up in the softness of a Court’ II Electoral Princess: ‘The affections of the heart’ PART TWO: BRITAIN I Princess of Wales: ‘Majesty with Affability’ II Leicester House: ‘Not a Day without Suffering’ III Queen: ‘Constancy and Greatness’ Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Picture Section Index Also by Matthew Dennison About the Publisher For Gráinne, with love ‘Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair … Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.’ Song of Solomon

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Epigraph Epigraph ‘The darling pleasure of her soul was power.’ Lord Hervey, Memoirs ‘She loved the real possession of power rather than the show of it, and whatever she did herself that was either wise or popular, she always desired that the King should have the full credit as well as the advantage of the measure, conscious that, by adding to his respectability, she was most likely to maintain her own.’ Walter Scott on Caroline of Ansbach, The Heart of Midlothian , 1818

Introduction

Prologue: ‘Halliballoo!’

PART ONE: GERMANY

I Princess of Ansbach: ‘Bred up in the softness of a Court’

II Electoral Princess: ‘The affections of the heart’

PART TWO: BRITAIN

I Princess of Wales: ‘Majesty with Affability’

II Leicester House: ‘Not a Day without Suffering’

III Queen: ‘Constancy and Greatness’

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Picture Section

Index

Also by Matthew Dennison

About the Publisher

‘The darling pleasure of her soul was power.’

Lord Hervey, Memoirs

‘She loved the real possession of power rather than the show of it, and whatever she did herself that was either wise or popular, she always desired that the King should have the full credit as well as the advantage of the measure, conscious that, by adding to his respectability, she was most likely to maintain her own.’