Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy - Softcover

Rappaport, Helen

 
9780099537465: Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 009953746X ISBN 13: 9780099537465
Verlag: Windmill Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

'Rappaport uses new sources to give a vivid account of Albert's death . . . a valuable and insightful book which will change our view of Queen Victoria.' Spectator

When Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died in December 1861 the nation was paralysed with grief.

His death was a catastrophe for Victoria, who not only adored her husband but had, through twenty-one years of marriage, utterly relied on him: as companion, father of their children, friend, confidant, and unofficial private secretary. Without Albert to guide and support her, the Queen retreated into a state of pathological grief which nobody could penetrate and few understood.

Drawing widely on contemporary letters, diaries and memoirs, Rappaport brings new light to bear on the causes of Albert's death and tracks Victoria's mission to commemorate her husband in perpetuity. Richly compelling, this is the story of a magnificent obsession that even death could not sever.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Helen Rappaport is an historian and Russianist with a specialism in the Victorians and revolutionary Russia. Her books include Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs, No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War, and Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the death that changed the monarchy, as well as Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer. She lives in West Dorset.

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Verlag
Windmill Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
009953746X
ISBN 13 
9780099537465
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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