Maria Fitzherbert
Subtitle: The Secret Wife of George IV
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: November 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780786710720
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography: royalty; Historical - British; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Royalty; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Historical
First sentence: The world into which Mary Ann Smythe was born on 26 July 1756 was a curious mixture of county society and high treason, of Georgian mansions and the executioner's block, a world of primogeniture, rent-rolls, manors, county routs, advantageous marriages and, above all, land, combined with the fear of betrayal and arrest.