The Spectator, August 28th, 2004
Power behind the scenes JOHN 3RD EARL OF BUTE: PATRON AND COLLECTOR by Francis Russell Published by Francis Russell, Tel: 020 7389 2073, £95, pp. 279, ISBN 0951259512
Parliament has so dominated the writing of English political history that the royal household has been sidelined. Moreover, the absence of a tradition of court literature as strong as the French, and prudent bonfires of such compromising documents as the letters to George III from Lord Bute, subject of this remarkable study - and to John Brown from Queen Victoria have erected walls of silence around this elusive institution.
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