Buy this book on-line WALTERS, JOHN: : The Royal Griffin: Frederick Prince of Wales,1707-51LONDON.JARROLDS,1972. ISBN 0091112400.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.FINE/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.A couple of closed tears,some light chipping to laminated top+bottom edges of dw/dj.Vertical crease to front inner flap of dw/dj.No major tears or loss to dw/dj.Contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,232pp includes 8pp b/w illustrations,Appendix,a Bibliography and an Index.
Of all the Princes of Wales,Frederick Louis,son of George II and father of George III,was the most controversial and contradictory.He was flagrantly immoral from his early teens,but at the same time deeply compassionate and devoted to doing good.He was hated by his parents and sisters who nicknamed him 'The Griff'.Yet as the defiant egalitarian in an age of snobbery,he was adored by the common people.Rake and gambler,he was also fond of such English pastimes as gardening,village cricket and amateur theatricals.Fredrick started his extraordinary career by presiding over the glittering court of Hanover at the age of seven as representative of his grand-father,George I.Moving to England at twenty-one he led a life of political and domestic struggle against his hostile father and of amorous adventure almost until his untimely death at the age of forty-four.
This new biography is rich in stories of the fantastic antics and eccentricities of royalty, the nobility and politicians,returning to the colourful and permissive 18thC.
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