George III's children Book

Although I can admire the work done by John van der Kiste in this work, my first praise must be for Queen Charlotte who gave birth to 15 children in 21 years. The author provides as much primary source material as possible for the coverage of many of the children. Arranging the text by theme rather than by individual children, was a pleasant surprise and shows the thorough understanding and research of each child mastered by van der Kiste. To illustrate, within the chapter, "Fatherly Admonitions" van der Kiste relays predominate instances in which children were called to the carpet by their father.

One caveat, the reader has to be well-versed in the children (can get tricky with the sons' titles and what names they go by in the family) to make full sense out of the chapters --make good use of the genealogical charts and the black & white reproduction pictures, (although not of the best quality, at least give an opportunity to picture the subjects). Ironically, the book cover of the edition I read, had the best pictures of the 15 off-spring.