The Last Princess

Matthew Dennison

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Orion Publishing Group, 2008

0753823470 / 9780753823477

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302 pages. Text lightly tanned, one plate sitting loose.Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her fat her died when she was four and Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absolutely, but she also demanded from her complete submission. It is an enthral ling story, not just of a mother/daughter relationship, but of a Queen and subje ct relationship. Victoria was not above laying it down regally even with her own children. Beatrice succumbed to her mother's obsessive love, so that by the tim e she was in her late teens she was running her mother's office, which meant tha t when Victoria died her daughter became literary executor, a role she conducted with teutonic thoroughness. She edited and bowdlerised her mother's journal tha t cover 70 years and where possible her voluminous correspondence. But thank goo dness Beatrice inherited some of her mother's more steely qualities. Although Vi ctoria tried to prevent Beatrice even so much as thinking of love, her guard sli pped when Beatrice was 29. Perhaps Victoria thought she was over the hill, but B eatrice 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 relac tance and, most significantly, Queen Victoria's opposition. Sadly, Beatrice inhe rited from her mother the haemophilia gene, which she passed on to two of her fo ur sons and which her daughter Victoria Eugenia, in marrying Alfonso XIII of Spa in, in turn passed on to the Spanish royal family. Beatrice, however, did not en d up simply as a wife and mother. She loved music and composed a military march (which apparently remains in the repertoire of British regimental bands), she sa ng and she painted. Dennison sums up: She was an essential component in the smoo.…

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Titel
The Last Princess
Autor
Matthew Dennison
Verlag
Orion Publishing Group
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Zustand
Good
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0753823470
ISBN-13
9780753823477
Abmessungen
21.3cm x 13.6cm
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