Gilded youth : a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges /
"A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Whipping boys and infant kings
- Bed-pan babies
- Mad, bad and sad: Royal children from George I to William IV
- 'My daughters have turned into cows': the children of Queen Victoria
- Better daughters than sons: the children of Edward VII
- The return of knock knees: the children of George V
- Pride and joy: the children of George VI
- Change and decay: the children of Elizabeth II
- Ancient and modern: the children of Charles and Diana
- Modern love: the children of William and Kate
- Children in exile: the children of Meghan and Harry
- Epilogue.