![]() ![]() His great-grandfather, the Elector of Hanover who donned the British crown as George I in 1714, was a stern figure whose affairs and neglect drove his wife Sophia Dorothea into the arms of the handsome Count Philipp von Konigsmarck. George's exacting dedication to this project, which went so sadly awry, was born, Hadlow suggests, out of a reaction against the "malign inheritance of emotional dysfunction" handed down through previous generations. there have happened such extraordinary things, that in any other family, public or private, are never heard of before." Yet George III's chief aim, as Janice Hadlow shows in her fascinating, story‑filled account, was to make his family life "ordinary", a model of domestic virtue that would establish a new style of royalty, a moral compass for the nation. I n 1812, Princess Charlotte, the granddaughter of George III, told her best friend: "No family was ever composed of such odd people, I believe. ![]()
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