Victoria's DaughtersSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 23 դեկ, 1999 թ. - 384 էջ The story of five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time. |
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Արդյունքներ 95–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... Albert had for some time been aware that his uncle Leopold savored the notion of his niece and nephew reigning together under his tutelage. But this initial visit produced no sparks, Victoria being far too enthralled with the power and ...
... Albert, but that too was discarded as “un-English.” Her husband thus remained plain “Prince Albert,” and would wait eighteen years to be honored by his wife with the titular dignity of “Prince Consort.” With her marriage, the girlish ...
... Albert got down to simply enjoying the fact of a healthy new baby in the palace. Referred to, with regal brevity, as “the Child” until its christening, during which ceremony Albert declared it had “behaved with great propriety, and like ...
... Albert simply reveled in the joys of a father who truly and unabashedly loved his child. His hopes for this child had their roots in Albert's own earliest days growing up in Coburg. The duchy was small and, in the larger scheme of ...
... (Albert's brother Ernest was a year older), the pressures of an empty and ill-matched marriage overcame her wedding vows, and Louise ran away with the officer. Duke Ernest divorced his wife in absentia, and neither Albert nor his brother ...
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Death at Windsor | |
Settling Daughters | |
Marriage and Death | |
Tragedy Again and Leavetaking | |
Canada and scandals | |
German Horrors | |
End of an | |
After Years | |
Principal Characters THE SISTERS | |
Bibliography | |