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BORN TO RULE: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria - Softcover

GELARDI, JULIA

 
9780312324247: BORN TO RULE: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312324243 ISBN 13: 9780312324247
Verlag: Griffin, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is the powerful epic story of five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria, who reigned over the end of their empires, the destruction of their families, and the tumult of the twentieth century

Here are the stories of Alexandra, whose faith in Rasputin and tragic end have become the stuff of legend; Marie, the flamboyant and eccentric queen who battled her way through a life of intrigues and was also the mother of two Balkan queens and of the scandalous Carol II of Romania; Victoria Eugenie, Spain's very English queen who, like Alexandra, introduced hemophilia into her husband's family---with devastating consequences for her marriage; Maud, King Edward VII's daughter, who was independent Norway's reluctant queen; and Sophie, Kaiser Wilhelm II's much maligned sister, daughter of an emperor and herself the mother of no less than three kings and a queen, who ended her days in bitter exile.

Using never before published letters, memoirs, diplomatic documents, secondary sources, and interviews with descendents of the subjects, Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an astonishing and memorable work of popular history.

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Verlag
Griffin
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312324243
ISBN 13 
9780312324247
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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