Maria Fitzherbert (CL)

by James Munson

Book Overview

For more than a century Buckingham Palace suppressed the facts about the illicit marriage between the twice-widowed Catholic Maria Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, the future George IV. Rumor and scandal began immediately when she met the accomplished if already slightly dissolute Prince of Wales, and even in her obituary, the Times of London pronounced the marriage "either a cruel imposition to silence the scruples of a virtuous though weakminded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786709049
• ISBN13: 9780786709045
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"