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The eldest daughter of George II, and Handel's most knowledgeable patron, Anne is the only English princess since the fifteenth century to rule alone in a foreign country. In the Netherlands she is the least known of the energetic and able women from Amalia van Solms to Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont who have married into the House of Orange, but she is unique in holding real political power.
This book uses hitherto unpublished private papers which give a vivid picture of eighteenth century social life in London, Friesland and The Hague. But, more importantly, they show her influence on Dutch politics at a time of constitutional change, while letters to her father, her brother 'Butcher' Cumberland and her cousin Frederick the Great show her playing a significant role on the European diplomatic stage.
This book uses hitherto unpublished private papers which give a vivid picture of eighteenth century social life in London, Friesland and The Hague. But, more importantly, they show her influence on Dutch politics at a time of constitutional change, while letters to her father, her brother 'Butcher' Cumberland and her cousin Frederick the Great show her playing a significant role on the European diplomatic stage.
Price: $219.00
Pages: 206
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute, New Series
Publication Date:
01 January 1995
ISBN: 9789004101982
Format: Other
'Veronica Baker-Smith has done a real service in illuminating this unjustly obscure life.'
Paul Minet, Royalty Digest, 1995.
Paul Minet, Royalty Digest, 1995.
Veronica Baker-Smith was born in Derbyshire, and educated in Scotland, completing her historical studies at the University of Wales in Cardiff in 1981. Later she moved to the Netherlands where she began research in the Koninklijk Huisarchief on the private papers of Stadholder William IV and his English wife, which provide the basis for this, her first book.