The Wives of George IV: The Secret Bride and the Scorned Princess
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Book Review: The Wives of George IV: The Secret Bride and the Scorned Princess by Catherine Curzon

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* The future King George IV was famously married twice, once illegally to Maria Fitzherbt and once legally to Caroline of Brunswick. Maria Fitzherbert, already twice a widow, was basically harassed into becoming his wife. Their wedding went against the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 and was thus never valid. Even [read more]

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Book News November 2021

*contains affiliate links* When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe  Hardcover – 12 October 2021 (US) & 12 November 2021 (UK) Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars―yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of [read more]