A Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria
Author | : Mary Ponsonby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Ponsonby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Ponsonby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258830113 |
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Author | : Mary Ponsonby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781436679947 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Virginia Surtees |
Publisher | : John Murray Publishers |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This Biography Of Lady Canning Is Also An Important And Entimate Picture Of Queen Victoria. Lady Canning`S Unpublished Journals Play A Revealing Part In This Biography.
Author | : Louisa Jane McDonnell Countess of Antrim |
Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrea L. Croasdale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Ladies-in-waiting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kate Hubbard |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062269933 |
During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician. Drawing on their letters and diaries—many hitherto unpublished—Serving Victoria offers a unique insight into the Victorian court, with all its frustrations and absurdities, as well as the Queen herself, sitting squarely at its center. Seen through the eyes of her household as she traveled among Windsor, Osborne, and Balmoral, and to the French and Belgian courts, Victoria emerges as more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish, more comical, than the austere figure depicted in her famous portraits. We see a woman who was prone to fits of giggles, who wept easily and often, who gobbled her food and shrank from confrontation but insisted on controlling the lives of those around her. We witness her extraordinary and debilitating grief at the death of her husband, Albert, and her sympathy toward the tragedies that afflicted her household. Witty, astute, and moving, Serving Victoria is a perfect foil to the pomp and circumstance—and prudery and conservatism—associated with Victoria's reign, and gives an unforgettable glimpse of what it meant to serve the Queen.
Author | : Lady Marie Mallet |
Publisher | : John Murray Publishers |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Mallet, Marie? (1862? 1934) British courtier and diarist Marie Adeane was born at Babraham, near Cambrdige, the daughter of Henry Adeane (died 1870), a Member of Parliament, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Yorke, the daughter of the fourth Earl of Hardwicke. Her godmother was the Duchess of Grafton. At her father?s death, her mother remarried to Lord Michael Biddulph. Like her mother before her, Marie served at court (1887? 1901) as lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. She became the wife (1891) of Sir Bernard Mallet (died 1932), a royal official, and left memoirs of her life at court until the queen?s death (1901). This and her personal correspondence was edited and published by her son, Sir Victor Mallet, a godson of Queen Victoria as, Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet?s Letters from Court 1887? 1901 (1968). During the latter part of her life Lady Mallet served as a Poor Law Guardian for Chelsea in London, as well as being active in various philanthropic organizations. She supported the Amateur Art Exhibition in London, and retained her links with members of the royal family, most notably Queen Mary. Marie Mallet died (March 5, 1934)."--Abitofhistory.net.
Author | : Julia Woodlands Baird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400069882 |
The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight
Author | : Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |