![]() ![]() Queen Charlotte shares his sense of moral purpose, and together they do everything they can to raise their tribe of thirteen sons and daughters in a climate of loving attention. For a long time, it seems as if, against the odds, George's great experiment might succeed. In A Royal Experiment, he is also a man with a poignant agenda, determined to be a new kind of king, one whose power will be rooted in the affection and approval of his people, and a new kind of man, a faithful husband capable of companionship and domestic harmony. To Americans, King George III has long been doubly famous-as the tyrant from whom colonial revolutionaries wrested their nation's liberty and, owing to his late-life illness, as the mad king. The stunning debut of an important new history writer In this magnificent biography of a marriage-between Great Britain's King George III and Queen Charlotte-Janice Hadlow exposes with astonishing emotional force King George's attempt to achieve what none of his forebears had accomplished: a happy family life. ![]()
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