My Life in the Past
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The Princess Who'd Rather Have Married A Baboon
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The Princess Who'd Rather Have Married A Baboon

Rich, cosseted, and — by their own account — miserable enough to consider almost anything to escape.

One eighteenth-century princess was so desperate to escape palace life she said she'd even have married a baboon. The fiancé she ended up with had breath that was apparently an even worse fate.

Here’s my new post on the difficulties of life as a Georgian princess!

It gives a flavour of my new book QUEENS AND KINGS, AN UNUSUALLY PERSONAL HISTORY, which is published very soon now, on 3 September.

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