The king was in a panic that the emboldened Caroline, nicknamed the “Bedlam Bitch of a Queen” by Sir Walter Scott, now had nothing to stop her from storming his coronation.

CAROLINE OF ENGLAND—Peter Quenne//— Viking ($3.75). Few writers can handle an early 18th-Century English subject with a grace and sang-froid that would have passed muster… ...

CAROLINE OF ANSBACH—R. L. Arkell—Oxford University Press ($4.25). For most people who know their English history, Queen Caroline means the unhappy spouse of George IV. But George II’s ...

The first monarch to rule over what would later become Great Britain was King Alfred the Great, who was crowned as the King of England in 871 A.D. There wouldn't be a British monarch per se until ...