Versailles, Het Leo, Hampton Court, Schonbrunn - royalty has been responsable for many of the most impressive gardens in history.What this book reveals for the first time is the wide-ranging network of gardens created by kings and queens, princes and princesses, who have been distinguished horticulturalists, as weil as those who nave been extravagant show-offs. Although the grandeur and spiendour of great gardens such as Sanssouci are much admired, more intriguing are the less weli known gardens created by royalty in recent decades such as Beloeii, Highgrove, and Laeken - that have the quaiity of their predecessors but which set out te create pr vacy rather than grandeur and display. Combining historical anecdote, personal histories, and horticultura, the book unveils for the first time the richest single vein in European gardening history.
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