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 86–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... royal clan —in bidding his great-aunt Bee a subdued good-bye. The scene was played out at St. George's Chapel, for centuries the de facto parish church to England's royal family, and where only a few emblems of the usual splendor ...
... royal families, including the kings of Norway and of the Hellenes, the deceased's nieces Princesses Helena Victoria and Marie Louise, and—as chief mourner—the long-exiled queen of Spain, Beatrice's daughter, Victoria Eugenia. The ...
... royal deliveries were conducted with a degree of care far exceeding that received by most of her kingdom's mothers, the effort had, in truth, killed the queen's aunt, a tragedy most responsible for putting Victoria on the throne. This ...
... royal groom had already been married—although his first marriage, to the Roman Catholic widow Maria Fitzherbert, was officially kept secret: marriage between any heir to the British throne and a Catholic was impermissible under the law ...
... royal— in fact, George's first cousin (her mother was the sister of his father)—but that about covered her commendable qualities, aside from the prospective groom's belief the connection would please her uncle, his father. On 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 | |