Author : Alan Palmer Year of publication: 1984 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: Very Good Category: Biographies Cost of book: £10 (includes P+P) Price negotiable: No
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The Life and Times of GEORGE IV ILLUSTRATED The Life and Times of George IV By Alan Palmer Fully illustrated in Colour and Black and White. Book Club Associates, London. 1984 Very good condition 16 pages of colour plates 100 illustrations in black and white Hardback with illustrated dustcover (dustcover is worn and scuffed) Book is tightly bound, no rips, tears or spotting. 25cms x 18cms 224 pages include Index and Geneology Post and Package included First as Prince of Wales, then Regent, and lastly King, George IV was ridiculed by his contemporaries for his immense size and absurd pretensions: while his extravagant passions, clumsy love affairs and disastrous relationship with his wife -to whom he took an intense dislike at their first meeting - made him a natural target for satirists and cartoonists. All this has unfairly affected the popular view of George today: since, for all his absurdities, 'Prinny' was a man of very real abilities. For years, his quarrels with his father barred him from playing any useful role in the government of the country, and, in frustraiion, he became the unofficial centre of the opposition to the King's ministers, yet when at last he did become Regent and King, he showed surprising political and diplomatic abilities. But it is as a man of wit and cultivation and as a patron of the arts that George should be more justly remembered. As Alan Palmer makes clear in this outstanding interpretation of a character, George was one of the most companionable of English monarchs, and his Regency and reign are justly considered to be one of the high-points of English social and cultural life - as well as one of the most extravagant and outrageous eras of our history.
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