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 47–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... eldest child, had to the surprise of many fulfilled his dynastic duty by contracting for a lawful marriage, relatively late in life—he was already in his thirties when he went to the altar. Others, however, accurately foresaw the ...
... eldest, York, was already married, but the union was childless and looked to stay that way; his wife, even if not yet barren, found her menagerie of monkeys and dogs far more congenial company than she did her racing-obsessed husband ...
... eldest female issue, though in reality it added nothing in constitutional terms to the bearer's stature.6 Faced with the probability that their daughter's adult life would most likely be passed as ornament and breeder in some ...
... eldest as heir, the younger sons in high positions in the army and navy. But daughters, he recognized, could be instruments for spreading British enlightenment to the Continental courts in which they would almost certainly marry. The ...
... eldest daughter would claim always to remember the “unclouded happiness” of her youth; but the sources of the shortcomings that would mar Vicky's adult life began during her earliest years, and many of these problems were maternal 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 | |