Description: In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives.Ambitious and talented people flocked to court in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. While its inhabitants were cocooned in comfort and splendour, successful courtiers had level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.
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EAN: 9780571238903
UPC: 9780571238903
ISBN: 9780571238903
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Book Title: Courtiers : the Secret History of the Georgian Court
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Topic: Modern / 18th Century, Royalty, Historic Preservation / General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2011
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Author: Lucy Worsley
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
