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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... Bertie” by his family. The royal couple and most of their subjects rejoiced in the knowledge that the nation's sovereignty would revert to a king and the “natural” order of things would thereby someday be restored. In 1841, no one could ...
... Bertie's birth, Albert's chief political, moral, and personal adviser and fellow Coburger, Baron Stockmar, a man as convinced of his own rightness as he was that the sun would rise each morning, devised at his master's behest an ...
... Bertie already safely represented the normal heir to the throne, and though another male would have been appreciated in an era when disease routinely carried off even babies born to the highest, both queen and prince knew more children ...
... Bertie—a resentment that was both reluctant and guileless, while he never less than adored her—was obvious early on. She called him “the Boy” and flaunted her obvious intellectual gifts over a child not nearly so blessed as herself. The ...
... Bertie, to whom this directive would most stringently be applied in the coming years, would react to it in very different ways. Bertie, whose natural bent was not academic, resisted. But Vicky became her tutor's perfect vessel and, in ...
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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 | |