A Life Of Anne Of Hanover Princess Royal

Author : Veronica P. M. Baker-Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004101982
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of Anne of Hanover, Princess Royal written by Veronica P. M. Baker-Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Anne, Princess Royal of England and Gouvernante of the United Provinces, using her unpublished correspondence to reveal a forceful and gifted woman, thrust into power in a foreign country at a time of national upheaval and diplomatic revolution.

Author : Baker-Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004617973
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of Anne of Hanover, Princess Royal written by Baker-Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eldest daughter of George II, and Handel's most knowledgeable patron, Anne is the only English princess since the fifteenth century to rule alone in a foreign country. In the Netherlands she is the least known of the energetic and able women from Amalia van Solms to Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont who have married into the House of Orange, but she is unique in holding real political power. This book uses hitherto unpublished private papers which give a vivid picture of eighteenth century social life in London, Friesland and The Hague. But, more importantly, they show her influence on Dutch politics at a time of constitutional change, while letters to her father, her brother 'Butcher' Cumberland and her cousin Frederick the Great show her playing a significant role on the European diplomatic stage.

Author : Brian Hoey
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9780330367226
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anne written by Brian Hoey and published by Picador. This book was released on 1998 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Princess Royal, telling the story of her life and work. The book includes the break-up of her first marriage to Mark Phillips, and a portrait of Tim Laurence, her second husband. The author has talked to the Princess's friends, such as Andrew Parker Bowles and Malcolm Wallace.

Author : Brian Hoey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780246135575
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anne written by Brian Hoey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Cathcart
Publisher : Sapere Books
ISBN 13 : 9781800553910
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess Royal written by Helen Cathcart and published by Sapere Books. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing account of the life of Princess Anne and how her role was shaped by the six women who served as Princess Royal before her. Ideal for readers of Gyles Brandreth, Ingrid Seward and Hugo Vickers. To understand what it is to be a Princess Royal, the 'doyenne of royal biographers' Helen Cathcart skilfully portrays the lives of the foremost royal daughters from the days when princesses were 'ladyes' and the King's eldest son was styled Prince Royal, through to our present Princess Royal. There have been seven Princess Royals throughout British history, the inaugural of whom was Princess Mary, the eldest daughter of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, followed by Princess Anne (daughter of King George II), Princess Charlotte (daughter of King George III), Princess Victoria (daughter of Queen Victoria), Princess Louise (daughter of King Edward VII), and Princess Mary (daughter of King George V). The current holder of the title, Princess Anne, emerges from this background, clearly demonstrating how the role or Princess Royal has evolved over the generations into one of duty and personal achievement. Drawing on royal letters, journals and associated material, the author's fascinating pen captures the first four decades of Princess Anne's life, from playful child and stylish teenager to champion rider and tireless campaigner for good causes. Along the way are royal engagements and regimental dinners, a love affair with a Dragoon and a terrifying kidnap attempt. The Princess Royal is the definitive account of what it means to be the first and most royal of royal daughters and how Princess Anne is truly a Princess Royal for our times. 'Wide acclaim as a royal biographer ... objective, uninhibited and penetrating' - Sunday Express 'Helen Cathcart writes about royalty as if she were one of them' - The Daily Mail 'The doyenne of royal biographers' - The Daily Telegraph 'A tireless chronicler of royalty' - The Guardian

Author : Brian Hoey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780600357155
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HRH the Princess Anne written by Brian Hoey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael A. Beatty
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786415588
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Royal Family of America, from Jamestown to the American Revolution written by Michael A. Beatty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about a century and a half after they arrived from England, America's first permanent colonists considered themselves to be English. They were proud of their heritage and loyal to their country. England's royal family truly was the royal family of America--until the era of the American Revolution, when the colonies fought for their independence from England and its rulers. Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, Anne, George I, George II, and George III--the English royals who were also the royals of early America--are all covered in this work. It begins with Queen Elizabeth I, as it was during her rule that Sir Walter Ralegh established his settlements in America, and ends with King George III, as it was during his rule that the American Revolution began. A biographical sketch is provided for each royal and his or her spouse and legitimate children. Brief mention is made of mistresses and illegitimate children.

Author : Moniek Bloks
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785359150
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolina of Orange-Nassau written by Moniek Bloks and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743 – 1787) was born the daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange, and Anne, Princess Royal and was thus the granddaughter of King George II. It was upon the King's orders that she was named after his wife, Caroline of Ansbach. She was the first of Anne and William's children to survive to adulthood. When her father was at last made stadtholder of all seven united provinces, Carolina was included in the line of succession, in the event she had no brothers. A brother was eventually born, but due to his weak health, she remained an important figure. Carolina married Charles Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and suffered the loss of half her children, either in childbirth or infancy. Despite this, she acted as regent for her minor brother while heavily pregnant and remained devoted to him and the Dutch republic. Her children married well and her descendants sit upon the royal thrones of Europe, truly making her a grandmother of Europe.

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317129903
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau written by Susan Broomhall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and spaces, as well as rituals, acts and practices. The book adopts several innovative approaches to the history of the Orange-Nassau family, and to familial and dynastic studies generally. Firstly, the authors analyse in detail a vast body of previously unexplored sources, including correspondence, artwork, architectural, horticultural and textual commissions, ceremonies, practices and individual actions that have, surprisingly, received little attention to date individually, and consider these as the collective practices of a key early modern dynastic family. They investigate new avenues about the meanings and practices of family and dynasty in the early modern period, extending current research that focuses on dominant men to ask how women and subordinate men understood 'family' and 'dynasty', in what respects such notions were shared among members, and how it might have been fractured and fashioned by individual experiences. Adopting a transnational approach to the Nassau family, the authors explore the family's self-presentation across a range of languages, cultures and historiographical traditions, situating their representation of themselves as an influential House within an international context and offering a new vision of power as a gendered concept.

Author : Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494910
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Georgian Princesses written by Van der Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological account of the princesses and consort Queens of the Georgian era. From Sophia who died shortly before she would have become Queen as heir to Queen Anne, to Adelaide, consort to William IV whose failure to provide an heir ensured the succession passed to his niece Queen Victoria. During this period, an array of colourful personalities came and went - George I's ill-fated wife Sophia Dorothea of Celle who was imprisoned for adultery for over 30 years until her death; the equally tragic Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and sister of George III who married an incipient schizophrenic, saw her lover put to death, was divorced and imprisoned, released after pressure from her brother, only to die of typhoid or scarlet fever aged just 23; George IV's notorious consort , his cousin Caroline of Brunswick, who danced naked on tables and was refused access to his coronation; and their daughter Charlotte, whose death in childbirth in 1817 necessitated the hasty marriages of several of her middle-aged uncles in a desperate race to provide a legal heir to the throne.