Caroline the Queen by Jean Plaidy6/20/2023 She has learned to manage her difficult husband and endured many years of his father's somewhat ridiculous rule, but at great cost to her intellectual life and continued education. Caroline the Queen picks up Caroline's life many years after the Hanoverians came to power on a wave of Whig adoration. It's hard to reconcile that portrait with Jean Plaidy's though. All signs at the end of the third novel, The System of the World, pointed to her as being a figure on which many hopes are to be pinned, a future champion of reason and science, the reconciler of Liebniz and Isaac Newton, perhaps even a latter-day Elizabeth, albeit with a lunkheaded husband. She finished those novels as the wife of Sophie's grandson George Augustus, the future Prince of Wales and thus the future George II of England. Show More Hanover and there was a pupil of Gottfried Liebniz.
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