... gifts, since it is itself a book of easy charm and a kind of facile elegance which suits the period it depicts. For the great Whig families feature here, and the London of Devonshire House and Charles James Fox and the Prince Regent (who would loyally sport ...

... marriage until Mary's death, and it seemed to at least one reader to have been written with a strong Whig bias, though with a frank admission of the Whigs' inadequacy. The aim of the royal pair is shown to have been the estab lishment of a lasting European ...