
The Lost Queen
The Life & Tragedy of the Prince Regent's Daughter
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Narrated by:
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Anne Flosnik
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By:
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Anne M. Stott
About this listen
As the only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) was the heiress presumptive to the throne.
Her parents' marriage had already broken up by the time she was born. She had a difficult childhood and a turbulent adolescence, but she was popular with the public, who looked to her to restore the good name of the monarchy.
When she broke off her engagement to a Dutch prince, her father put her under virtual imprisonment and she endured a period of profound unhappiness. But she held out for the freedom to choose her husband, and when she married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg she finally achieved contentment.
Her happiness was cruelly cut short when she died in childbirth at the age of 21 only 18 months later. A shocked nation went into mourning for its "people's princess", the queen who never was.
©2020 Anne Stott (P)2020 TantorThe narration is a little robotic at times, with a few mispronunciations (no one ever pronounces ‘Belvoir’ correctly so it’s not the end of the world) but perfectly clear and I had no problem with it.
Interesting window onto a fascinating period
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Sadly, a book that really did have the potential to be very interesting, was made quite difficult to plough through because of the terrible narration. On several occasions her dull and robotic delivery was so boring, I fell asleep and missed bits of the book. Still, I suppose the book could be recommended as an insomnia cure, but that doesn’t seem fair to say because it wasn’t the writer who was at fault. It was the terrible narrator. I could have lived with her mispronunciation - I have never heard Esher pronounced quite like that, or, for that matter, monarchy, but I could overlook that. What is difficult to overlook is the lack of interest in the subject the narrator shows. She treats the book as nothing more than a telephone directory.
Unfortunately, having listened to this once, I don’t think I could listen to it again, unless it was read by a different narrator.
Interesting book ruined by narrator
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Interesting
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I Would recommend.
A story of how royalty used to live
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A good book but irritating pronounciation
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Great book, bad narrator
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The story is very engaging and I didn’t want it to end! Perfect for those of us who reread Pride and Prejudice every two months.
Didn’t want it to end
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The narrator was intensely irritating with her persistent mispronunciations and lack of tonal inflection. Doesn’t anyone ever edit these audiobooks?
A litany of royal cruelty
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Not great
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