The Lost Queen - Norah Lofts

A new Novel by one of today's most popular authors, based on the life of George III's sister, Princess Caroline-Matilda, whose marriage brought her to a throne and whose secret love brought her to disaster. This is a story of high romance and tragedy, a moving drama of human frailty set against the implacable demands of a royal crown. With careful attention to the histoical record, Norah Lofts has recreated Caroline-Matilda's life in a tale that Vivildy evokes the stark contrasts of 18th century Denmark: the cruelty, poverty, and oppression of existence under an absolute hmonarch sinking in to madness; the royal court with its pomp and pageantry; and the hatreds and intrigues that swirled around the young, lovely figure who was, brieffly its queen.