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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017
Description
What happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live happily ever after, or did their marriage, like so many royal marriages past and present fizzle into a loveless bond of duty? Victoria and Albert were the royal couple that broke the mould - it may have been an arranged match, yet their union was a passionate, tempestuous relationship between two extremely strong-willed individuals. Despite the fact that they were first cousins...
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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The success story of the British royal family can be laid at the door of Prince Albert, who, after his death in 1861, turned into a man who could do no wrong. His statues were to be seen all over the Empire. Albert Halls, Albert Squares, Albert Streets filled every English-speaking town, and many of the towns in India. In this exhaustively researched and definitive biography, A.N. Wilson reveals Prince Albert to be a man of prodigious gifts. Not only...
3) Victoria
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In 1837, less than a month after her 18th birthday, Alexandrina Victoria - sheltered, small in stature, and female - became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and from the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first name in favour of Victoria; insisting, for the first time in her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother; resolute about meeting with her ministers alone. One of those ministers, Lord...
Author
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A biography of Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria. A social and cultural visionary in his own right, he was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld but defined the culture and direction of 19th-century Britain more than any other British royal or politician.
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