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 36–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... Finally, at the end of a total of fifty hours of labor, the all-but-expended princess managed to deliver a son—stillborn. Though her attendants frenziedly attempted every known remedy to bring breath into the child, it had evidently ...
... Finally, in the spring of 1837, William IV, the only person between Victoria and the throne, was dying. William had been not exactly a bad king, only a stupid and uninspiring one, who did little if anything to repair the damage to the ...
... fervently hoped-for male—a matter of considerably dynastic moment. Just after noon the next day, November 21, when the unanesthetized delivery finally produced an apparently perfect infant (when asked if she wanted a sedative, the.
... finally, the scales were more than tipped by the practical recognition that the nation's new railways could quickly carry them to a country that only a few years earlier had been impossibly distant from England's capital. In 1848, the ...
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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 | |