A blackmailer at Frogmore : the adventures of Queen Caroline's ghost
Travers, James2022
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This is the story of Queen Caroline's favourite ghostwriter, the infamous Captain Thomas Ashe, who was also an adventurer and sometime blackmailer. His unpublished novel, 'The Claustral Palace', carried out Caroline's threat to 'blow the roof off the Nunnery', revealing the secret lives and loves of the daughters of King George III in their unmarried confinement at Frogmore, the UK marital home of Harry and Meghan (for a short time). A blackmailing synopsis was circulated to members of the royal family. It was then stolen by government agents and preserved by the Treasury Solicitor. James Travers describes for the first time the significance of this novel, its author, and his relationship with Caroline, the estranged wife of George IV, and with the government of Spencer Perceval, whose untimely death the author predicted. Did Perceval himself blackmail his way to power?
Main title:
A blackmailer at Frogmore : the adventures of Queen Caroline's ghost / James Travers.
Author:
Travers, James, author
Imprint:
Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2022.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781398106581 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
941.074092941.074 TRAV
Language:
English
Subject:
Ashe, Thomas, 1770-1835Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821Scandals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryUnfinished books -- Great Britain -- History and criticismGreat Britain -- Kings and rulers -- ChildrenGreat Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820Frogmore House (England)History
BRN:
1967779
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