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2 unusual facts about Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall


Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall

In 1862, he made the authorised British translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, which was reissued in 1864 and 1879.

He claimed to have shown by original research the worthlessness of the evidence on which the queen was divorced after the Struensee affair, and published for the first time (iii. 252–3) the letter protesting her innocence, which the queen wrote just before her death to her brother George III of the United Kingdom.



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