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An interview about ‘Courtiers’ for the History Today Book Club

Extract from History Today, January edition, 2012 Each month we recommend a work of history recently published in paperback.  We discuss the book with its author and invite readers to contribute to the dialogue on our website.  The History Today Book Club recommendation for January is Courtiers; The Secret History of Kensington Palace (Faber & Faber) by

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Replica set of whalebone hoops

So, if you want to see the replica set of whalebone hoops I was talking about on Saturday Live this morning, here’s a picture of Fi Glover in the studio with them. I’m told that I turned several stomachs with my description of Queen Caroline’s heroic but gory end.

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