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Author | : Van der Kiste |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2011-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752473247 |
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Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy. This is not only the story of their lives in terms of world impact, but also of their own personal achievements, their individual contributions to public life in Britain and overseas and in their roles as the children of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
Author | : Lucinda Hawksley |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466863900 |
Download Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view. Louise was a sculptor and painter, friend to the Pre-Raphaelites and a keen member of the Aesthetic movement. The most feisty of the Victorian princesses, she kicked against her mother's controlling nature and remained fiercely loyal to her brothers-especially the sickly Leopold and the much-maligned Bertie. She sought out other unconventional women, including Josephine Butler and George Eliot, and campaigned for education and health reform and for the rights of women. She battled with her indomitable mother for permission to practice the "masculine" art of sculpture and go to art college-and in doing so became the first British princess to attend a public school. The rumors of Louise's colorful love life persist even today, with hints of love affairs dating as far back as her teenage years, and notable scandals included entanglements with her sculpting tutor Joseph Edgar Boehm and possibly even her sister Princess Beatrice's handsome husband, Liko. True to rebellious form, she refused all royal suitors and became the first member of the royal family, since the sixteenth century, to marry a commoner. She moved with him to Canada when he was appointed Governor-General. Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.
Author | : Marlene A. Eilers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789197397889 |
Download Queen Victoria's Descendants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Matthew Dennison |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1789543916 |
Download The Last Princess Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born – in 1866 – of Victoria and Albert's children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944. Her childhood coincided with her mother's extended period of mourning for her prematurely deceased husband, a circumstance which may have contributed to Victoria's determination to keep her youngest daughter as close to her as possible. She would eventually marry Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1885, but only after overcoming her mother's opposition to their union. Beatrice remained Queen Victoria's favourite among her five daughters, and became her mother's constant companion and later her literary executor, spending the years that followed Victoria's death in 1901 editing her mother's journals and voluminous correspondence. Matthew Dennison's elegantly written biography restores Beatrice to her rightful place as a key figure in the history of the Victorian age, and paints a touching and revealing portrait of the life and family of Britain's second-longest-reigning monarch.
Author | : Michael Farah |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1800468075 |
Download Children Of The Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have described the events of their extraordinary existence, scandals, loves, triumphs and tragedies.
Author | : Deborah Cadbury |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610398475 |
Download Queen Victoria's Matchmaking Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power, she was determined to maneuver them into a series of dynastic marriages with the royal houses of Europe. Yet for all their apparent obedience, her grandchildren often had plans of their own, fueled by strong wills and romantic hearts. Victoria's matchmaking plans were further complicated by the tumultuous international upheavals of the time: revolution and war were in the air, and kings and queens, princes and princesses were vulnerable targets. Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the glittering, decadent palaces of Europe from London to Saint Petersburg, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions to enthralling effect. It is at once an intimate portrait of a royal family and an examination of the conflict caused by the marriages the Queen arranged. At the heart of it all is Victoria herself: doting grandmother one moment, determined Queen Empress the next.
Author | : Daphne Bennett |
Publisher | : St Martins Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312660062 |
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Sketches the childhood of the English Queen's nine children, her relationships with each of them, and how they lived their later lives
Author | : Julia Woodlands Baird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400069882 |
Download Victoria the Queen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : dronning af England Victoria |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1977 |
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ISBN | : |
Download Dearest Child Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Gloria Whelan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1442458852 |
Download Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Prince Albert comes up with a royally creative solution to Queen Victoria’s modesty concerns in this true story that reveals an overlooked splash of history. Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can’t quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing her swimming suit. (Because, of course, such a sight would compromise her regal dignity.) Fortunately for the water-loving monarch, it’s Prince Albert to the rescue with an invention fit for a queen! This quirky tale about the longest reigning monarch in British history is as fun as it is authentic, and the book includes a picture of the actual bathing machine Prince Albert created.