Perdita's Prince Author:Jean Plaidy The seventeen-year-old Prince of Wales fell headlong in love with the dazzling beauty of Mary Robinson in her stage role as Perdita. — Their romantic assignations were of consuming interest to the Whig enemies of George III and to such ambitious men as Fox, Burke and Sheridan, the playwright. Under their influence a new world opened to the Princ... more »e - gambling, prize-fighting, horse-racing, bawdy, brilliant talk and beautiful hostesses vying for his company.
The Prince had been treated like a child by his father for too long. He had no intention of allowing Perdita to do the same . . .
Jean Plaidy's robust historical novels, which range from the intrigues of fifteenth-century Rome through turbulent Tudor and Stuart England to the terrors of the Georgian era, have enthralled readers for over twenty years.« less