Joanne Hayle
ASIN: B01BJSN2OM
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 82
In the early 1700's the British royal family had a problem: Queen Anne had no living heirs and a Protestant monarch was needed for when she and the House of Stuart ceased to rule. The solution lay in Hanover. The British welcomed, not altogether enthusiastically, King George I, The Turnip King, and his son, later King George II, in 1714. The George's and Prince Frederick of Wales shared a barely concealed contempt for one another. The House of Hanover was rarely at peace. Hanoverian father worked against son, son conspired against father and grandson. From a king who arrived with his two mistresses and had his wife incarcerated, to the king and queen who loathed their eldest son and made no secret of who they truly wanted to reign instead of him to the political alliances intended to anger and two king's evicting their own offspring from palaces, it's a wonder that the House of ...