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The volume presents sequential biographical portraits of the queens associated with the Hanoverian succession, opening with a detailed account of the family origins and early life of one consort and moving through court households, marriages, scandals, and political alignments. It interweaves genealogical background, personal anecdotes, and contemporary intrigues—favourite courtiers, rivalries, and suspected crimes—to illuminate private character and public consequence. Chapters combine chronological narrative and episodic vignettes to show how domestic relationships, patronage, and foreign and domestic politics shaped royal women’s experience and reputation.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages that referenced them, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed at the end of the book.