Airborne - The Hanover Restoration - Plot & Excerpts
Frankly, the fate of the King George III’s surviving sons held little interest for me, even less the fate of the king’s grandsons. I knew that the eldest surviving son, Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, had settled for being King of Hanover. I knew his son George, born three days before Lexa, was blind. But I knew nothing about George III’s youngest son, the Duke of Cambridge, or his son, who was now bowing over my hand. If asked, I would have guessed the duke and his family were living quietly in the country somewhere, or even in exile. That the erstwhile Prince George was a colonel in the British army was more than a bit of a surprise. Nor did the irony escape me. The three cousins—two Georges and Lexa—were born within two months of each other, as George III’s sons attempted to produce a future monarch after the shocking death of Charlotte, the Princess Royal, in childbirth. The result—three baby Hanovers born the year before the old king died, with Alexandrina Victoria taking precedence over her male cousins because her father, the Duke of Kent, was born before Cumberland and Cambridge.
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