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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... began, a week or two earlier than her doctors had predicted. Because of the low state of medicine in the early nineteenth century, childbirth was still a largely primitive undertaking. Though royal deliveries were conducted with a ...
... began to be overshadowed in the mid-1790s when George took a sudden passion for new lovers, first Lady Jersey, later Lady Hertford. It was actually debts incurred during his illegal marriage that most directly prompted the prince to ...
... began to tire of the elderly company that represented the coterie around which her duties turned, finding that she had “no scope,” as she put it in her diary, for her “very violent feelings of affection.” Two years later, when a more ...
... began planning in earnest how his future children might realize his ideal, wherein parliamentary government was presided over by constitutional, nonreactionary, fairminded monarchs who would as a cardinal virtue of their station remain ...
... began to discover how useful Albert could be to her, his days still held many empty hours, and he thus found time, and was so inclined, to attend lovingly to his daughter, even in her nursery. But his presence there itself created ...
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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 | |