The very existence of the Hanoverian dynasty is under threat. George III, the “Crown Button Man,” dies, and his sons, who are no longer young, although they managed to start families, do not have a single legal heir. But for the sake of the crown, it turns out that it is not at all difficult to break seemingly strong bonds. New, “legal” marriages are being concluded hastily. Who will give the country an heir?..

And only the eldest of the brothers, the now reigning King George IV, does not take part in the “marriage race”. Once the most brilliant gentleman in Europe, the “Prince of Self-Charming”, and now seriously ill, long unloved by his people, George lives only with memories of his only real feeling - for the most beautiful of women, Maria Fitzherbert...

< p>An endless chain of tragedies and accidents brings the young princess, destined to become the great Queen Victoria, close to the English throne.