Hi my name is Justin aka Ghost Reader
and today I'm going to be doing a review
of the book
of the Daughters of George III: Sisters and
Princesses
by Catherine Curzon.
The book is published by Pen and Sword
and you can get this in bookstores now.
So
this book is a- takes a look at
the lives of the six daughters of
King George and his wife, Charlotte
King George III and Charlotte of
England. This is this same
King George the third that you see in
Hamilton (the play) and that was king when the
American Revolution was happening. Him and his wife actually had a total
of 15 kids, six of them
which were- are the daughters that are
mentioned in this book
and their names are Charlotte, Augusta
Elizabeth, Mary
Sophia and Amelia. And so the book
talks about of course, their parents
first,
how king George III and their mother
were very faithful to each other.
King George the third never had any
mistresses and was actually very
doting on his kids.
Unfortunately, that was kind of
disrupted by the fact that he had a mental
illness and probably some other
physical ailments as well. So that
kept him not only from being
a good father towards the end but also
the ruling of the kingdom. That's why
you have the Regency era when his son
takes over and that actually impacts
the lives of his daughters.
So the daughters are kind of grouped
 in trios even though like-  In the book
She devotes that first part to the
parents and how the
their upbringing was and then the
next
six parts, each one is devoted to each
of the daughters.
And so basically you get a
a sketch of-of- you get to look at the
royal household
and how each of these daughters was,
unfortunately, had their lives kind of disrupted by
their father's illness because
they were supposed to- they wanted to
get married of course, and they would
expect to be married off and
unfortunately since the king was-was-was-
very-
was very ill he couldn't really focus on
that and their mother
because of what was happening to her
husband, had a very tight grip
on her children as well and that only
got worse as he- as he got sicker. So
with her daughters, she had a-
she kept them on a very tight leash so
you
kind of get the feeling that her
daughter's never really reached their
full potential because of that.
And so a lot of them actually got-
quite a number of them got married kind
of late. So
none of them actually had children if
I'm not mistaken. I don't believe any of
them- well one did have a child but
unfortunately was born
stillborn but none of them were
unfortunately able to have children
one because many of them married late
and because
they- one died actually and tragically
very young.
So- but you still see their- their
personalities
shining through. They have different
talents like
botany, horse riding, drawing
and so they try to find- in this book,
the author points out where they try to
find
spaces for independence away from their
mother, trying to get away from their mother's grip,
trying to do things that still
allowed them to
have what little lives that they could
have as being part of
the royal household and kept so close to their
mother.
So I thought that the book did that
really well, portraying that.
I just felt like for this particular
book
I kind of wanted more. Like it's a good
sketch and i think
the book works well as it's a good like
overall survey of their lives
but I kind of it kind of leaves you
wanting more
in the way about- about these women
and- and what they did and
how their lives were. So
i still think that Catherine- because
this is the third book I've read by her,
Catherine,
the best book I've read by Catherine
Cuzon on was her book on Sophia
Princess Sofia, this one was- was good
too but I don't think it was as good as
that book. So for this book I'm going to
give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
So i think it's a very interesting read
if you're interested in in reading about
these royal uh daughters lives
I think this is the book for you
you'll definitely get a look at
at these women as individuals and
you kind of see in like their diary
entries and
people- other accounts that they were
torn between, you know, the duty to their
mother who kept using their father's
illness as a way to keep them from
venturing out too far and also trying to
find life on their own
terms. So that is going to be the end of this
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