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Titled Americans : a list of American ladies who have married foreigners of rank : annually revised : illustrated with armorial bearings
\"The real story behind Downton Abbey ... Titled Americans is the 1890 book that, at the height of the Gilded Age, would have been used by noble British and wealthy American families to arrange a transatlantic marriage. Including famous names like Roosevelt, Churchill, Jerome, Polk and the British Royal Family, this book is an authentic glimpse of a glamorous age when romance and the power of wealth and title vied for supremacy.\"--Back cover.
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The King's Wife
One of the most extraordinary episodes in British royal history took place on 15 December 1785 when George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and George IV) secretly married the beautiful, twice-widowed and Roman Catholic Maria Fitzherbert. This marriage was in breach of the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 but was almost certainly valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church, and possibly of all Christian churches. If it had been discovered, George might well have forfeited his claim to the throne. As it was, George and Maria remained together for over twenty-five years, staying deeply attached, despite George's disastrous (and probably bigamous) marriage to Princess Caroline of Brunswick. The King's Wife is a highly readable account of a love match that, in part, pre-echoes the later relationship of Prince Charles and Camilla. In the eyes of George IV's own family, Maria was his real wife.
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Royal Kinship
Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about \"their foreign roots\". The Royals – as they say – are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an \"imagined community\", invented by journalists and historians?
The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors – among others John Röhl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history – open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg.
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