Queen Victoria S Daughters In Law

Author : John Van Der Kiste
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 284 pages
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Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399001465

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Queen Victoria’s Daughters-in-Law by John Van Der Kiste Pdf

Of Queen Victoria’s four sons, the eldest married a Danish princess, one a Russian Grand Duchess, and the other two princesses of German royal houses. The first to join the family of the ‘Grandmama of Europe’ was Alexandra, eldest daughter of the prince about to become King Christian IX of Denmark. Charming, ever sympathetic and widely considered one of the most attractive royal women of her time, she was prematurely deaf and suffered from a limp which was made fashionable by court ladies due to her popularity. Alexandra proved an ideal wife for the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and wife of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and later Saxe-Coburg Gotha, was cultured and intelligent, but dowdy, haughty and, convinced of the Romanovs’ superiority, resented having to give precedence at court to her in-laws. Louise of Prussia, a niece of William I, German Emperor, had the good fortune to escape from a miserable family life in Berlin and marry Arthur, Duke of Connaught, a dedicated army officer who was always the Queen’s favorite among her children. Finally, Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont, sister of Emma, Queen Consort of the Netherlands, became the wife of the cultured Leopold, Duke of Albany, but he was hemophiliac and their marriage was destined to be the briefest of all, cut short by his sudden death less than three years later. All four were very different personalities, proved themselves to be supportive wives, mothers and daughters-in-law in their own way, and dedicated workers for charity at home and abroad. Based partly on previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives at Windsor and Madrid, and the Leonie Leslie Papers, University of Chicago, this is the first book to study all four as a family group.

Author : John Van Der Kiste
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399001489

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Queen Victoria’s Daughters-in-Law by John Van Der Kiste Pdf

Of Queen Victoria’s four sons, the eldest married a Danish princess, one a Russian Grand Duchess, and the other two princesses of German royal houses. The first to join the family of the ‘Grandmama of Europe’ was Alexandra, eldest daughter of the prince about to become King Christian IX of Denmark. Charming, ever sympathetic and widely considered one of the most attractive royal women of her time, she was prematurely deaf and suffered from a limp which was made fashionable by court ladies due to her popularity. Alexandra proved an ideal wife for the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and wife of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and later Saxe-Coburg Gotha, was cultured and intelligent, but dowdy, haughty and, convinced of the Romanovs’ superiority, resented having to give precedence at court to her in-laws. Louise of Prussia, a niece of William I, German Emperor, had the good fortune to escape from a miserable family life in Berlin and marry Arthur, Duke of Connaught, a dedicated army officer who was always the Queen’s favorite among her children. Finally, Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont, sister of Emma, Queen Consort of the Netherlands, became the wife of the cultured Leopold, Duke of Albany, but he was hemophiliac and their marriage was destined to be the briefest of all, cut short by his sudden death less than three years later. All four were very different personalities, proved themselves to be supportive wives, mothers and daughters-in-law in their own way, and dedicated workers for charity at home and abroad. Based partly on previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives at Windsor and Madrid, and the Leonie Leslie Papers, University of Chicago, this is the first book to study all four as a family group.

Author : JOHN VAN DER. KISTE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399001450

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QUEEN VICTORIA'S DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW. by JOHN VAN DER. KISTE Pdf

Author : Jerrold M. Packard
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429964906

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Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard Pdf

The story of five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time. Vicky, Alice, Helena, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would curiously come to share many of the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by nineteenth-century women of less-exulted class. Victoria and Albert's precocious firstborn child, Vicky, wed a Prussian prince in a political match her high-minded father hoped would bring about a more liberal Anglo-German order. That vision met with disaster when Vicky's son Wilhelm-- to be known as Kaiser Wilhelm-- turned against both England and his mother, keeping her out of the public eye for the rest of her life. Gentle, quiet Alice had a happier marriage, one that produced Alexandra, later to become Tsarina of Russia, and yet another Victoria, whose union with a Battenberg prince was to found the present Mountbatten clan. However, she suffered from melancholia and died at age thirty-five of what appears to have been a deliberate, grief-fueled exposure to the diphtheria germs that had carried away her youngest daughter. Middle child Helena struggled against obesity and drug addition but was to have lasting effect as Albert's literary executor. By contrast, her glittering and at times scandalous sister Louise, the most beautiful of the five siblings, escaped the claustrophobic stodginess of the European royal courts by marrying a handsome Scottish commoner, who became governor general of Canada, and eventually settled into artistic salon life as a respected sculptor. And as the baby of the royal brood of nine, rebelling only briefly to forge a short-lived marriage, Beatrice lived under the thumb of her mother as a kind of personal secretary until the queen's death. Principally researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-- and entertainingly written by an experienced biographer whose last book concerned Victoria's final days-- Victoria's Daughters closely examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and finally passed over entirely with the accession of their n0 brother Bertie to the throne. Packard provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as daughters of their time.

Author : Edward Frederic Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89013270558

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Daughters of Queen Victoria by Edward Frederic Benson Pdf

Author : Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448192113

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The Mystery of Princess Louise by Lucinda Hawksley Pdf

‘Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories’ Observer What was so dangerous about Queen Victoria’s artistic tempestuous sixth child, Princess Louise? 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 f from public view for years. 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 rumours of Louise’s colourful 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 to marry a commoner since the sixteenth century. Spirited and lively, The Mystery of Princess Louise is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.

Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752473246

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Queen Victoria's Children by John Van der Kiste Pdf

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 : Edward Frederic Benson
Publisher : New York ; London : D. Appleton-Century
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89094686045

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Queen Victoria's Daughters by Edward Frederic Benson Pdf

Author : Sarah (Duchess of York),Benita Stoney
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000027091457

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Victoria and Albert by Sarah (Duchess of York),Benita Stoney Pdf

An insight into the private life of this royal couple, as reflected in the family home they created together.

Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : Orion
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297865582

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The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison Pdf

Queen Victoria's favourite child - the true story of a royal mother-daughter relationship that changed history Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absolutely, but she also demanded from her complete submission. It is an enthralling story, not just of a mother/daughter relationship, but of a Queen and subject relationship. Beatrice succumbed to her mother's obsessive love, so that by the time she was in her late teens she was her constant companion and running her mother's office, which meant that when Victoria died her daughter became literary executor, a role she conducted with teutonic thoroughness. She edited and bowdlerised her mother's Journals that cover 70 years and where possible her voluminous correspondence. Although Victoria tried to prevent Beatrice even so much as thinking of love, her guard slipped when Beatrice was 29. She met Liko, Prince Henry of Battenberg, and fell in love. Beatrice, however, did not end up simply as a wife and mother. She loved music and composed a military march which remains in the repertoire of British regimental bands, she sang and she painted. Matthew Dennison draws on extensive new material to restore Princess Beatrice to her rightful place as a key figure in the Victorian dynasty.

Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752499260

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Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz by John Van der Kiste Pdf

This work tells the love story of the royal couple against the changing background of 19th-century Germany. It looks at the differing political sympathies of the couple, revealed through letters, and re-examines the prevailing view that the domineering Vicky never bothered to conceal her distaste for everything Prussian and flaunting her sense of British superiority. In many ways ahead of her time, she was something of a pioneer feminist, refusing to accept the oft-accepted maxim that women were second-class citizens. Insufficient consideration has been given to her health and the possibility that her judgement and reason may sometimes have been affected, albeit mildly, by the family's inheritance of porphyria that led to the 'madness' of her great-grandfather George III.

Author : Jehanne Wake
Publisher : London : Collins
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015051426735

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Princess Louise by Jehanne Wake Pdf

Biografie van de Engelse prinses (1848-1939).

Author : Daphne Bennett
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015010454273

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Queen Victoria's Children by Daphne Bennett Pdf

Author : Nina Epton
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:32000006221206

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Victoria and Her Daughters by Nina Epton Pdf

Author : S. Chomet
Publisher : Begell House Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Marriages of royalty an nobility
ISBN : IND:30000068595523

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Helena by S. Chomet Pdf

Princess Helena was the third of Queen Victoria's five daughters. Carl Ruland was Prince Consort's Germanborn librarian and sometime tutor to the Royal children. He left Windsor after three and a half years in the employment of the Royal Family. And Helena became Princess Christian (of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg) when she marred Prince Christian, an impoverished continental prince, in 1866.