The Harcourts
2019 ◽
pp. 207-221
The papers of the Second and Third Earls Harcourt have become available in the last five years. Among them are a substantial number of letters from the French branch of their family, whose head was the duc D’Harcourt. As leading office-holders at the British court, the Harcourts were close friends of the king and queen, and the Harcourts acted as a conduit for first-hand information from France, and this chapter will show that they greatly influenced the king’s views on the Revolution and the wars which followed. Throughout these years, George took a more ideological and intransigent view of these events than his prime minister Pitt, and their sources of information help to explain their differences.
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2015 ◽
Vol 22
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pp. 13-21
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