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Often in comparison to Catherine the fantastic or Elizabeth I, Caroline of Ansbach is the fantastic queen Britain forgot it had - a thinker, politician, schemer, patroness and matriarch. This amazing book offers a impressive portrait of a woman of great politics astuteness and ambition, a radical icon of female power. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish hubby, George II, Caroline is acknowledged with providing the Enlightenment to Britain through her sponsorship of red-hot debates about technology, religion, beliefs and the nature of the universe. Encouraged by Girl Mary Wortley Montagu, she championed inoculation; encouraged by her friend Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, she mugged through to Newtonian physics; she embraced a salon culture which marketed improvements in music, literature and garden design; and she was a normal theatregoer who treasured the opera, gaming and dancing. Her intimates marvelled at the breadth of her hobbies. She was, said Lord Egmont, 'inquisitive in everything'. Caroline acted as Regent four times whilst her hubby returned to Hanover, and during those times she possessed power over all domestic matters. No subsequent royal female has exercised power on such a scale. Why has history ignored this outstanding queen? With this amazing biography, the first for over 70 years, Matthew Dennison seeks to reverse this disregard. The First Flat iron Girl uncovers the complexities of Caroline's multifaceted life from the child of a German princeling who, through intelligence, dedication and a dash of intimacy appeal, rose to occupy one of the fantastic positions of the world - and did so with difference, élan and a degree of cynical realism.
