Royal Flash

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Title Royal Flash
Author George MacDonald Fraser
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Historical novel
Publisher HarperCollins
Released 1970
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 304 pp (paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-00-651126-0
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 a film in 1975.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Royal Flash is set during the Revolutions of 1848. The story features Lola Montez, and Otto von Bismarck as major characters, and fictionalizes 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.

Characters include Prince Edward, Lillie Langtry, Lola Montez, Otto von Bismarck, Ludwig I of Bavaria, John Gully, Nicholas Ward, Lord Conyngham, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Oscar Wilde, Henry Irving, Karl Marx, Lord Palmerston, Viscount Peel, Jefferson Davis.

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.

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Flashman novels

Flashman • Royal Flash • Flash for Freedom! • Flashman at the Charge • Flashman in the Great Game • Flashman's Lady • Flashman and the Redskins • Flashman and the Dragon • Flashman and the Mountain of Light • Flashman and the Angel of the Lord • Flashman and the Tiger • Flashman on the March


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