A vast improvement over the first volume of the Georgian saga, this book showed me the Sophie, Sophie Charlotte and most importantly the Caroline I'd been looking for. I've already read and enjoyed Caroline the Queen so it was especially nice to get more back story, particularly about the enmity between Caroline's husband (the future George II) and father-in-law (King George I) given further context by the events of Princess of Celle. Sigh. This is why I like to read series in order! But these books get hard to find...One problem this book has that lost it a star, though, is that it was a tad repetitive. La Hibbert apparently didn't trust us to remember that, say, George I thought Caroline was foxy but too clever and "needed watching", or that his tall, thin mistress was practically a wife to him, or that Caroline had a nice rack, without being reminded of these every chapter or so. Sigh.
