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Caroline the Illustrious

Queen-Consort of George II. and sometime Queen-Regent

A Study of her Life and Time

BY
W. H. WILKINS, M.A., F.S.A.
AUTHOR OF “THE LOVE OF AN UNCROWNED QUEEN”

In the Preface of this book the Author remarks that it is characteristic of the way in which historians have neglected the House of Hanover that no life with any claim to completeness has yet been written of Caroline of Ansbach, Queen-Consort of George the Second, and four times Queen-Regent. Yet, in his opinion, she was by far the greatest of our Queens-Consort, and wielded more authority over political affairs than any of our Queens-Regnant, with the exception of Elizabeth and, in quite another sense, Victoria. The ten years of George the Second’s reign until her death would, Mr. Wilkins thinks, be more properly called “The Reign of Queen Caroline,” since for that period she governed England with Walpole. And during those years the great principles of civil and religious liberty, which were then bound up with the maintenance of the Hanoverian dynasty upon the throne, were firmly established in England.

LITERATURE.—“The book will sustain Mr. Wilkins’s reputation as a student and exponent of history.”

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—“A book brimful of highly interesting and entertaining matter.”

SCOTSMAN.—“As a vivacious chronicle of those events which constitute the trimmings and the embroideries of serious history, Mr. Wilkins’s work will rank as one of the most entertaining books on an interesting period.”

NOTTINGHAM DAILY GUARDIAN.—“The author’s descriptions of life at Court during both reigns, and of such episodes as the rising of 1715 and the quarrel between George I. and his son, are full of vivid reading, and his sketches of Walpole, Bolingbroke, and other leading politicians are both adequate and fair.”

DAILY NEWS.—“The sketches of Court life and manners in the days of the first two Georges furnish the reader with abundant entertainment.... Mr. W. H. Wilkins may be congratulated upon the discovery of one illustrious Princess who, though she filled for a considerable period a very conspicuous and on the whole a worthy position in the annals of this country, has somehow escaped due biographical honours.”

The “Baron de Book Worms” in PUNCH.—“Brilliantly written, with every incident dramatically given, and with every important character duly weighed and valued, there is not a dull page in the entire work. It is, indeed, one of the most interesting, as it is one of the most delightful, of books, sparkling with the romance of real life that has engrossed the Baron’s attentions this many a day. Those who have a lively recollection of The Love of an Uncrowned Queen will be in no way disappointed with this new work by the same author.”

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