Kensington Palace - An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle
epub | 337.92 KB | English | Author :Tom Quinn | B084KNVV3T | 2020 | Biteback Publishing

Book Description :

For more than 200 years the younger members of the British royal family - including future monarchs - have lived at Kensington Palace, alongside royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic eccentrics.
Kensington Palace has been the scene of countless bizarre events - here, for example, the young Queen Victoria was held a virtual prisoner for eighteen years; and it was from Kensington Palace that Queen Caroline ran the country while her husband George II moved his pictures around.
In more recent times, Kensington Palace was famously the scene of Charles and Diana's nightmare marriage and Charles's serial adulteries. But then Kensington Palace has a long history of royal philandering. George II installed his wife and mistress in the palace, for example, and made his mistress sleep in a room so damp there were said to be mushrooms growing on the walls.
And then there were the eccentrics. George III's sixth son, Augustus,...

Category : | Biographies of the Rich & Famous, Landmarks & Monuments, Biographies of Royalty