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| Author | : John Van der Kiste |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2011-10-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0752471988 |
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How was Queen Victoria influenced by her closest male ministers, relatives, advisers and servants? John Van der Kiste is the first to explore this aspect of Victoria's life; focusing on four roles - mentors, family, ministers and servants. A soldier's daughter, Victoria lost her father at the age of eight months. Although her uncle Leopold did his best to be a substitute father, the absence of her real father probably influenced her throughout her life, not least in choosing her husband. Her close and faithful relationship with Albert is one of the great royal love stories but her relationships with her sons were much more stormy. However, with most of her heads of government she enjoyed relatively cordial relations - in widowhood she shoed a decided partiality for Disraeli, who acquired for her the title Empress of India, but disliked Gladstone, complaining that he "speaks to me as if I were a public meeting". Queen Victoria's relationships with her servants are also explored, from the liberal influence exerted over the increasingly conservative queen by her private secretary, Ponsonby, to the outspoken John Brown and the Indian Munshi, who both antagonised those around her.
| Author | : John Van der Kiste |
| Publisher | : Sutton Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780750937887 |
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Explores aspects of Victoria's life, focusing on four roles - mentors, family, ministers and servants. This book tells about her close and faithful relationship with Albert, one of the great royal love stories, but her relationships with her sons were much more stormy. Also, she showed a decided partiality for Disraeli but disliked Gladstone.
| Author | : John Van der Kiste |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2011-10-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0752473247 |
Download Queen Victoria's Children Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Patricia Smith Prather |
| Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780929398877 |
Download From Slave to Statesman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Joshua Houston (1822- 1902) was born on the Temple Lea plantation in Marion, Perry County, Alabama. In 1834 Templeton Lea died and willed Joshua to his daughter, Margaret, as her personal slave. In 1840 Margaret Lea married General Sam Houston and moved to Texas. She took Joshua with her. Joshua faithfully served the Houston family during their many political and financial ups and downs. In 1862 Sam Houston freed his slaves. Joshua elected to remain with the Houston family and took Houston as his surname. In 1866 he homesteaded in Huntsville, Texas, near the Houston family. He became a well-known and respected public figure in Huntsville where he served as city alderman and later served as county commissioner of Wlker County. In 188 he was elected as a delegate to the National Republican Convention from Texas. He was the father of seven or eight children by three different women. Descendants live in Texas.
| Author | : John Van der Kiste |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2011-09-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0752470973 |
Download William and Mary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the Dutch republic, and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I of England, who was eleven years older than her. In November 1677, on William's 27th birthday, they married in a private ceremony at St James's Palace. William was solemn, James gloomy, Mary in tears, and only King Charles appeared cheerful. This dual biography deals with both the 'life and times' of the monarchs, and with England's place in Europe. Interests of the subjects, outside the constitutional, are dealt with, as well as their personal relationships: William's rumoured homosexuality and Mary's hinted-at lesbianism; Mary's troubled personal relations with her father, James II; and the relationship between Mary and her sister and husband's successor Anne. The book also examines the personal and political relations between William and his uncle Charles II, and between William and Mary and Charles' illegitimate son the Duke of Monmouth.
| 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 | : James Panton |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 724 |
| Release | : 2011-02-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0810874970 |
Download Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy provides a chronology starting with the year 495 and continuing to the present day, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and other aspects of British culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is a must for anyone interested in the British monarchy.
| Author | : Coryne Hall |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2020-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1445695049 |
Download Queen Victoria and The Romanovs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alexander III called Victoria ‘a pampered, sentimental, selfish old woman,’ while to her he was a sovereign whom she could not regard as a gentleman. But the Queen's son and two of her granddaughters married Romanovs.
| Author | : John Van der Kiste |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2012-02-29 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0752483935 |
Download Surrey Murders Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Surrey Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases. They include the 'Wigwam Girl', Joan Wolfe, who lived in a tent built by a Cree Indian Soldier before being brutally slaughtered; the infamous stabbing of Frederick Gold by 'the Serpent', Percy Lefroy Mapleton; the poisoning of the entire Beck family with a bottle of oatmeal stout, laced with cyanide; and the sailor butchered at the Devil's Punch Bowl, later immortalised in Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. John Van der Kiste's carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to all those interested in the darker side of Surrey's history.
| Author | : Shrabani Basu |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2017-08-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0525434429 |
Download Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearestcompanion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves—Prince Albert and John Brown—Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen’s teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria’s long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul’s devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an extraordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen.
