Horizon Information Portal

HSPLS site

eBooks/Audiobooks

Reading Program

Courtiers : the secret history of Kensington Palace / Lucy Worsley.

by Worsley, Lucy, author.

View full image

London : Faber, 2011.

Kensington Palace (London, England) -- History -- 18th century.

Nobility -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- History -- 18th century.

Great Britain -- Kings and rulers.

Great Britain -- Court and courtiers.

9780571238903 (pbk.)

0571238904 (pbk.)

xx, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, genealogical tables ; 20 cm

"Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II. In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace--paintings you can see at the palace today--The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III , and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty"--Amazon.com

Horizon Information Portal 3.0

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal