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	978-0-257-66799-7
OCLC	29733
Dewey Decimal	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.

Harry Flashman's The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser

Flashman books	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

Adapted characters	Tom Brown Harry "Scud" East

Related novels	Mr. American Black Ajax Tom Brown's School Days

Film adaptations	Royal Flash

See also	Overview of Fraser's Flashman series

Works by George MacDonald Fraser

The Flashman Papers	Flashman (1969) Royal Flash (1970) Flash for Freedom! (1971) Flashman at the Charge (1973) Flashman in the Great Game (1975) Flashman's Lady (1977) Flashman and the Redskins (1982) Flashman and the Dragon (1985) Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1990) Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1994) Flashman and the Tiger (1999) Flashman on the March (2005)

Other novels	Mr American (1980) The Pyrates (1983) The Candlemass Road (1993) Black Ajax (1997) The Reavers (2007)

Short stories	The General Danced at Dawn (1970) McAuslan in the Rough (1974) The Sheikh and the Dustbin (1988)

History	The Steel Bonnets (1971) The Hollywood History of the World (1988, revised 1996)

Memoirs	Quartered Safe Out Here (1992) The Light's on at Signpost (2002)

Screenplays	The Three Musketeers (1973) The Four Musketeers (1974) Royal Flash (1975) The Prince and the Pauper (1977) Force 10 from Navarone (1978) (uncredited) Ashanti (1979) (uncredited) Superman II (1980) (uncredited) Octopussy (1983) Red Sonja (1985) The Return of the Musketeers (1989)

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