Prince George & Master Frederick (by Rosalind Freeborn) will be published by Alliance Publishing Press on 30th January 2025. It will be available on Amazon and through bookshops. You can also buy it directly from me on my author website. The cost is £15 per copy (plus £5.00 postage in the UK) and I’ll send you a signed copy.

In 1765, Frederick Blomberg a four-year-old orphan, is bundled into a carriage with a woman he does not know and taken to the royal palace at Richmond to be a playmate for the three-year-old Prince George. But why have King George III and Queen Charlotte adopted this child and what is his secret connection to the king?

I was prompted to write this book after investigating a family story suggesting that there was a connection (on my mother’s side) with King George III. Researching this story opened up the most fascinating life-story of Frederick Blomberg. He’s a character who is occasionally referenced in history books and royal biographies but his story has never been told before. Yet, when you look at the portrait by court artist, Richard Brompton, which was commissioned by Queen Charlotte, it’s clear that he was an important child in the household.

Prince George & Master Frederick is a work of fiction but it is based on real events, charting the lives of real people with just a few characters added for dramatic impact.

The two portraits which appear on the book jacket are by Richard Brompton. They feature the same plinth as prop and both boys are wearing the same pom-pom shoes. The portrait of Prince George, wearing garter robes, features Windsor Castle in the background (the painting now hangs in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace). Frederick Blomberg, in a fabulous rust-coloured suit, with greyhound, features Buckingham House in the background. Buckingham House was later remodelled and became Buckingham Palace.

It’s very exciting to have some advance copies of the book. I look forward to the moment it is published on 30th January 2025.