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Caroline of England, subtitled An Augustan Portrait, is the story of the smooth-bosomed, strong-minded Princess of Brandenburg-Anspach who married George Augustus of Hanover (George II) and contrived to rule him and England in the spacious years 1727-37. Peter Quennell's biography of Caroline is the second to appear within the last six months. Less formal than the first, Caroline of Anspach by R. L. Arkell (TIME, Aug. 7) it is actually less a history of the queen than an able and entertaining study of the society in which she moved...
Soon after their marriage in Germany in 1705, Prince George Augustus, who regarded gallantry as the duty of a prince, punctiliously took a mistress in the person of an English visitor, the charming Henrietta Howard, later Lady Suffolk. Caroline allowed no displeasure to appear and his foresighted grandmother "regarded the affair as eminently suitable, since her grandson would now have a chance of improving his English." Prince George, his wife and mistress amicably made their way to the English court on the accession of the House of Hanover...
...soon as he had a chance, George Augustus' bored father, George I, fled from England to his beloved Hanover for a long vacation. Prince George Augustus and lively Caroline proceeded to ingratiate themselves with the English at cheerful Hampton Court, surrounded by learned English divines and delightful English ladies. To the stolid, jealous King, who already detested his son and feared his daughter-in-law, their merrymaking was impertinent. A year later George Augustus and Caroline were summarily expelled from the royal household, set up an "opposition court" at Leicester House, where Careerists Pope and Gay and the ugly...
...round and square cannon balls and bullets . . . making a total revolution in the Art of War' ") and deflated ("the proprietors of private madhouses had their hands so full that they were obliged to shut their doors . . ."). In 1727 the old King died and the coronation of George Augustus and pomp-loving Caroline (who had a "petticoat so heavily jewel-encrusted that it was found necessary to contrive a sort of pulley that en abled her to raise the hem when she knelt down") ushered in the Augustan...
...London, hairy old British Portraitist Augustus John, incorrigible bohemian, foe of the Royal Academy, glared at an exhibition of landscapes by his daughter, Vivien, then bought another artist's painting in the same show. Asked his opinion of his daughter's work, he snorted: "Rubbish...