Royal Flash

Royal Flash
First edition cover
Author George MacDonald Fraser
Cover artist Arthur Barbosa
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Historical novel
Publisher Barrie & Jenkins
Publication date
 1970
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 256
ISBN 978-0-257-65101-9
OCLC 29733
823/.9/14
LC Class PZ4.F8418 Fp PR6056.R287
Preceded by Flashman
Followed by Flash for Freedom!

Royal Flash is a 1970 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the second of the Flashman novels. It was made into the film Royal Flash in 1975 and remains the only Flashman novel to be filmed.

Plot summary

Royal Flash is set during the Revolutions of 1848. The story features Lola Montez and Otto von Bismarck as major characters, and fictionalises elements of the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 1843, 1847 and 1848. It is set in the fictional Duchy of Strackenz, making it the only Flashman novel to be set in a fictitious location.

Other characters include:

The book is loosely based on the plot of The Prisoner of Zenda. Flashman explains that this is because the story was plagiarised from him by its author, Anthony Hope. In a letter, Fraser wrote that during his researches into an earlier Flashman book he had discovered that in real life Bismarck and Lola Montez had been in London at the same time. He added that it had been too good an opportunity to miss.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Letter from George MacDonald Fraser in the Glenn Christodoulou Collection
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