Author: Flora Fraser

Flora Fraser is a British historical biographer whose books recover individual voices from royal and political archives. She studied classics at Oxford and began her career with a life of Emma Hamilton, later writing about Queen Caroline, Pauline Bonaparte, George and Martha Washington, and Flora Macdonald. Princesses focuses on the six daughters of George III and Queen Charlotte, drawing especially on their private correspondence. First published in Britain in 2004, the group biography follows Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia across a period shaped by the American and French revolutions, dynastic expectations, and strict family control. Fraser pays close attention to their unusually broad education, artistic interests, emotional alliances, and limited choices over marriage and independence. The subtitle, The Six Daughters of George III, defines the book's subject precisely. Fraser's archival method allows the sisters to emerge as distinct people while also showing how royal duty bound their lives together.