In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives... Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. Successful courtiers needed level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.
| ISBN: | 9780571238903 |
| Publication date: | 2nd June 2011 |
| Author: | Lucy Worsley |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Genres: |
History: specific events and topics Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings |