THE LAST PRINCESS. The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter.

Matthew Dennison

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007

0297847945 / 9780297847946

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352 pages. Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her fat her died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depe nd on her youngest daughter absolutely, but she also demanded from her complete submission. It is an enthralling story, not just of a mother/daughter relationsh ip, but of a Queen and subject relationship. Victoria was not above laying it do wn regally even with her own children. Beatrice succumbed to her mother's obsess ive love, so that by the time she was in her late teens she was her constant com panion and running her mother's office, which meant that when Victoria died her daughter became literary executor, a role she conducted with teutonic thoroughne ss. She edited and bowdlerised her mother's Journal that cover 70 years and wher e possible her voluminous correspondence. But thank goodness Beatrice inherited some of her mother's more steely qualities. Although Victoria tried to prevent B eatrice even so much as thinking of love, her guard slipped when Beatrice was 29 . Perhaps Victoria thought she was over the hill, but Beatrice met Liko, Prince Henry of Battenberg, and fell in love. As Dennison puts it: hers was a 'hard-won victory of love over family prejudice, political relactance and, most significa ntly, Queen Victoria's opposition.' Sadly, Beatrice inherited from her mother th e haemophilia gene, which she passed on to two of her four sons and which her da ughter Victoria Eugenia, in marrying Alfonso XIII of Spain, in turn passed on to the Spanish royal family. Beatrice, however, did not end up simply as a wife an d mother. She loved music and composed a military march which remains in the rep ertoire of British regimental bands, she sang and she painted. Dennison sums up.…

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Titel
THE LAST PRINCESS. The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter.
Autor
Matthew Dennison
Verlag
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Zustand
Very Good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0297847945
ISBN-13
9780297847946
Illustrator
Well-illustrated
Auflage
2. Auflage
Abmessungen
15.6cm x 3.1cm x 23.4cm
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British History

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