A Queen of Tears, vol. 1 of 2

PREFACE

Some years ago, when visiting Celle in connection with a book I was writing on Sophie Dorothea, _The Love of an Uncrowned Queen_, I found, in an unfrequented garden outside the town, a grey marble monument of unusual beauty. Around the base ran an inscription to the effect that it was erected in loving memory of Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway, Princess of Grea...