Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II. In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court ...
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Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II. In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace--paintings you can see at the palace today-- The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III, and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty.
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Good. Size: 9x6x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. "All those flowers placed outside Princess Diana's London home 13 summers ago are only the latest chapter in the history of one of those palaces where the walls could tell many a tale about the intersection of aristocracy and political culture."-Martin Rubin, The Wall Street Journal.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0802719872. B&W and Color & Map; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4; xx, 402 pages; Hard cover is blue with gold lettering on spine. Light rubbing, bumping to boards. DJ has light rubbing, scuffing, bumping; in a mylar cover. Ilustrated with b/w map, drawings and genealogical tables. Well written and researched title by the popular UK history program presenter, Dr. Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the Historic Royal Palaces. Gets behind the 'big moments' of history to show how life was lived as a royal, surrounded by courtiers and politicians, et al. During the reigns of George I [1714-1727] and George II [1727-1760]. Sources; notes; index.
