THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.
"Yuii innr strut, dapper George, but It will all he In vain. Wo know 'tis Queen Caroline, and not you. that reign'" So sang a wag of Caroline of Anspach, consort of George 11. And she was not the only one of England's Queens to play a brave and important part in the kingdom. By force of habit probably, or by the inequality of sex, they have been hustled into Insignificance by their illustrious husbands, and it is only when they have been thoroughly "gone into" that the extent of their inllnonce is realised. Plodding through a history book, mechanically reading the uames of the queens ns they were courted by, married, and buried by our kings, it seldom occurs to the reader that these women really lived: and what a "thin" time they had of it. too. Mr. Thornton Cook, in his vivid sketches in "The Queens of England" (John Murray) brings them to life. The book is written in a popular style and contains a number of excellent portraits. It will delight those interested in any or nil periods of English history.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 22
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