The Regent's Daughter

YOUNG PRINCESS CHARLOTTE WAS ALMOST AN ORPHAN.

Her mother was a madwoman. Her father heartily disliked her--Charlotte was too unfinished and impulsive for his exquisite taste. Much worse, she was her mother's daughter. The Regent hated his estranged wife and longed to divorce her and marry again, even if it meant raking up scandals better left forgotten. If he could only sire a son by a new wife, he could push young Charlotte aside along with her despised mother.

But Charlotte had a dream of her own--and the determination to fulfill it. She also had two good allies: her grandfather, King George III, and the common people of England.

Set in the extravagant Regency era, with all its shocking scandals, fierce political clashes, and outrageous royal quarrels, Charlotte's story is one to make you laugh and weep. No one could do better justice to it--capturing the full, intoxicating richness of the Regency--than Jean Plaidy, rightly hailed as queen of the historical novel.