- Hardcover: 496 pages
- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd; 2004 First Edition edition (13 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719561086
- ISBN-13: 978-0719561085
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 14.6 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 54,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Fraser weaves her story from the Princess' letters, and the "confident, conspiratorial, allusive" lines that ley bare their gilded lives' -- Sunday Herald 20050807 'A beautifully balanced and often very moving narrative' -- Times Literary Supplement 20041203 'Definitive and beautifully researched ... tenderly and movingly recounted ... captivating' -- Tatler 20041203 In this serious, substantial book, Fraser quotes sensitively from confidential letters ... keeping expert control over her material' -- Independent on Sunday 20041203 'In the course of her research, Flora Fraser developed for all six princesses 'the greastest respect and admiration'. One of the achievements of Princesses is to inspire in the reader similar emotions.' -- The Times 20041203 'A lusty tale ... set to be a bestseller' -- You Magazine 20041203 'A gripping family fresco' -- Country Life 20041203 'A rattling good yarn, with all the ingredients of a Gothic romance, including madness, tragedy, illegitimate children, imprisoned princesses and threatened inheritance.' -- Lady 20041109 'A sparkling narrative skilfully weaves together a wealth of historical detail' -- This England 20050601 'The Princesses' letters give a wonderfully personal texture to a narrative that unmasks kingship to reveal troubled kinship.' -- Daily Telegraph 20050806 'Riveting and beautifully written ... intimate and revealing ... utterly poignant' -- The Sunday Telegraph 'Compelling... seekers after monarchy with a human face need look no further' -- Literary Review 'A real-life Regency tale, full of cads, bounders, elopements, affairs, madness, illegitimate offspring, tragedies and comedies, all within a scholarly tome' -- Sunday Herald 'Meticulously detailed and deeply researched' -- Spectator 'Beautifully crafted, witty, scholarly, and sympathetic' -- The Telegraph 'A natural born biographer ... [she tells] a richly detailed story' -- Scotsman 'Fascinating, highly accomplished, admirable' -- Mail on Sunday 'This reviewer!is impressed by the amount of work undertaken, especially in the Royal Archives, to give these often patronised Princesses a fair treatment. She has done much to correct centuries of neglect and to show that there was much more to them than either their contemporaries or historians have thought'. -- Contemporary Review 20050401 'Unprecedented access to the sisters' letters... [support] a richly-textured narrative... In Flora Fraser they find the sensitive biographer they deserve' -- Independent 20050401
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'Compelling... seekers after monarchy with a human face need look no further'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
To be honest though i have made it to the end of this book, i have finished it under some strain. the subject matter captivated me, the writing style did not.
The story gets told in exacting detail, though there is no real flow in the telling of the tales.
Maybe the real problem is the book tried to cover the lives of too many characters rendering it all a bit muddled.
Though one thing in it's favour is that is very well researched and packed with intriguing, amusing and often touching anecdotes from cover to cover.
The story gets told in exacting detail, though there is no real flow in the telling of the tales.
Maybe the real problem is the book tried to cover the lives of too many characters rendering it all a bit muddled.
Though one thing in it's favour is that is very well researched and packed with intriguing, amusing and often touching anecdotes from cover to cover.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This should be a terrific book -- the subject is extremely interesting. Unfortunately, the writing is rather poor. It's full of run-on sentences and indirect language that detracts from the story. For example:
"What made more of an impression on eleven-year-old Princess Royal and her sisters than some rooms furnished with the Queen's familiar elegance, or even the state rooms within the castle - which had a tendency to admit rain - furnished by their Stuart kinsman King Charles II, were the festivities arranged for their brother's birthday."
Ugh! Who edited this thing?
"What made more of an impression on eleven-year-old Princess Royal and her sisters than some rooms furnished with the Queen's familiar elegance, or even the state rooms within the castle - which had a tendency to admit rain - furnished by their Stuart kinsman King Charles II, were the festivities arranged for their brother's birthday."
Ugh! Who edited this thing?
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed this book. It was not too heavy on the historical facts and the hardest part was keeping up with who was whom. So many of the family have the same name. Just as well there is a family tree at the start, i referred to it a hundred times. A good holiday book, easy to pick up and put down without losing the thread.
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