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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... keep their children in line, but was also reputed (admittedly gossip rather than fact) to have murdered his manservant and committed incest with his sister, Sophia. In 1815, Cumberland married a divorced German princess, herself a ...
... keep her out of the monarch's reach and interference. As it happened, the girl at the center of these collective ambitions despised Conroy as much as did her uncle William. Observing what she construed to be her mother's unseemly ...
... keep the thrones of Europe on sturdy foundations. Musically talented—a gift two of his own daughters would inherit—and a scholar from his youth, Albert possessed an intelligence more ordered and far better grounded than that of his ...
... keeping them essentially ignorant of the real workings of ordinary humankind over so many of whom their mother reigned. Albert cleaved not nearly so tightly to Victoria as she to him. Though he was throughout their married life ...
... keeping with the passionate nature of her personality, Victoria soon thereafter came under the almost complete tutelage of her prince. One official would write of Albert as “in fact, tho' not in name, Her Majesty's Private Secretary ...
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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 | |