- Gebundene Ausgabe: 413 Seiten
- Verlag: Putnam Pub Group (T); Auflage: Reprint (September 1985)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0399131019
- ISBN-13: 978-0399131011
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,2 x 2,5 cm
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Woman in the Middle
28. November 1998
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The survival of the British monarchy as a popular institution owes a lot to its queens who were, more often than not, more intelligent than their husbands. Caroline of Ansbach is such a queen. Well-educated and from one of the poorer German principalities, Caroline married into the boorish House of Hanover. It isn't long before she discovered she's caught between a loathsome, vindictive father-in-law, George I, and her not-too-bright and domineering husband, the future George II.
The House of Hanover, newly ascended to the English throne, would not have survived on the personal popularity of its kings. It took the cleverness of Caroline coupled with that of Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister, to keep things in balance. Jean Plaidy tells the tale of the reign of George I through the personal trauma of this most remarkable of English Queens.
Worth the wait
20. September 2011
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
I've had this book for a while because I've been reading all of Plaidy's books dealing with England in historical order. A mighty tall order.
Like my title says this book was worth the wait. It was excellent and I cannot wait to get to the next book Caroline the Queen. This book was a pick me up from the last one, and the first in the Georgian Saga The Princess of Celle (Georgian Saga, Book 1).
This book starts when Caroline is just a child and thrust into the world of intrigue and court life. She is forced to watch her mother go into a loveless and dangerous marriage to a man who hates her, and people who want her out of the way. After that she finds happiness only to have it ripped away from her. You begin to wonder if this book will be gloomy the entire time, but don't fret it gets much better.
Caroline was finally married to George Augustus, future George II of Britain, after turning down a possibly glorious marriage. She believes she may have found happiness, but her husband is petty and less intelligent than she is. Luckily she's clever enough to release that she can live with him and rule him because he is as he is.
Unfortunately she has to live and contend with her father-in-law George I. In The Princess of Celle (Georgian Saga, Book 1) I couldn't stand him, and I didn't much like him here either, but Plaidy makes him more understandable, if not sympathetic.
The book goes over George I's rising to the throne and his entire reign. The only George I know of remotely is George III who lost the American colonies, so this was territory unexplored for me. And did I learn a lot. I learned that family life was unpleasant for everyone involved, I learned of inoculations for smallpox, that we don't learn our lessons with the stock market and that any good mother grieves for her children taken no matter what time period.
I was very pleased with this book. I highly recommend it to everyone reading Plaidy and those who don't. Totally worth you time.
Like my title says this book was worth the wait. It was excellent and I cannot wait to get to the next book Caroline the Queen. This book was a pick me up from the last one, and the first in the Georgian Saga The Princess of Celle (Georgian Saga, Book 1).
This book starts when Caroline is just a child and thrust into the world of intrigue and court life. She is forced to watch her mother go into a loveless and dangerous marriage to a man who hates her, and people who want her out of the way. After that she finds happiness only to have it ripped away from her. You begin to wonder if this book will be gloomy the entire time, but don't fret it gets much better.
Caroline was finally married to George Augustus, future George II of Britain, after turning down a possibly glorious marriage. She believes she may have found happiness, but her husband is petty and less intelligent than she is. Luckily she's clever enough to release that she can live with him and rule him because he is as he is.
Unfortunately she has to live and contend with her father-in-law George I. In The Princess of Celle (Georgian Saga, Book 1) I couldn't stand him, and I didn't much like him here either, but Plaidy makes him more understandable, if not sympathetic.
The book goes over George I's rising to the throne and his entire reign. The only George I know of remotely is George III who lost the American colonies, so this was territory unexplored for me. And did I learn a lot. I learned that family life was unpleasant for everyone involved, I learned of inoculations for smallpox, that we don't learn our lessons with the stock market and that any good mother grieves for her children taken no matter what time period.
I was very pleased with this book. I highly recommend it to everyone reading Plaidy and those who don't. Totally worth you time.
Fun with the Hanoverians
12. Februar 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Queen in Waiting, published originally in 1967, is the story of Caroline of Ansbach, wife to the future George II, before she became queen.
This book starts out rather gloomily, with Caroline's spiritless mother, Eleanor, making a disastrous second marriage that nearly results in her being poisoned. Fortunately, smallpox saves Eleanor by widowing her a second time, and with Eleanor's decline and death soon following, the story switches to the much more interesting figure of Caroline herself. We follow Caroline into her marriage with George Augustus, whose father is destined to become King George I of England. In what would apparently become a Hanoverian family tradition, George I and George Augustus hate each other heartily, and their jockeying for power once the family moves from Hanover to England forms most of the plot of the novel.
Caroline is an intelligent, shrewd opportunist who is quick to take advantage of George I's unattractive personality by ingratiating herself with the people. Though George I succeeds in getting control of some of Caroline's children, Caroline is no victim like her mother; the fight never goes out of her. I also liked George Augustus's mother-in-law, Sophia, who is pleased when George Augustus takes up with an English mistress: "It should improve his English," she tells the furious Caroline. Sophia is one of several cheerfully cynical characters here.
There are some repetitive moments; we're reminded way too often that George I has locked up his wife because of her love affair.
Amusingly, once the Hanoverians move to England, Plaidy reminds us of their heavy German accents by having the Prince and Princess of Wales speak sentences such as these: "Ve vill think of something, my tearest." This usually works well enough, but it tends to undermine Plaidy's more dramatic moments.
All in all, though, this novel left me looking forward to more dysfunctional family fun with its sequel, Caroline, the Queen.
This book starts out rather gloomily, with Caroline's spiritless mother, Eleanor, making a disastrous second marriage that nearly results in her being poisoned. Fortunately, smallpox saves Eleanor by widowing her a second time, and with Eleanor's decline and death soon following, the story switches to the much more interesting figure of Caroline herself. We follow Caroline into her marriage with George Augustus, whose father is destined to become King George I of England. In what would apparently become a Hanoverian family tradition, George I and George Augustus hate each other heartily, and their jockeying for power once the family moves from Hanover to England forms most of the plot of the novel.
Caroline is an intelligent, shrewd opportunist who is quick to take advantage of George I's unattractive personality by ingratiating herself with the people. Though George I succeeds in getting control of some of Caroline's children, Caroline is no victim like her mother; the fight never goes out of her. I also liked George Augustus's mother-in-law, Sophia, who is pleased when George Augustus takes up with an English mistress: "It should improve his English," she tells the furious Caroline. Sophia is one of several cheerfully cynical characters here.
There are some repetitive moments; we're reminded way too often that George I has locked up his wife because of her love affair.
Amusingly, once the Hanoverians move to England, Plaidy reminds us of their heavy German accents by having the Prince and Princess of Wales speak sentences such as these: "Ve vill think of something, my tearest." This usually works well enough, but it tends to undermine Plaidy's more dramatic moments.
All in all, though, this novel left me looking forward to more dysfunctional family fun with its sequel, Caroline, the Queen.
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