Author: Ronald Clark
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448202337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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First published in 1981, this is Ronald Clark's engagingly readable account of Queen Victoria's relationship with "Our dear Balmoral" and the life that went on there. The biography of Balmoral begins with the first visit to Scotland of the young Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert in 1842. Five years later, while bad weather envelops the Royal party in western Scotland, the son of the Queen's physician, convalescing in Old Balmoral, reports blazing sunshine from Upper Deeside. The death of his host shortly afterwards opens the way for the Royal acquisition of the Balmoral estate and the building of the new Castle in 1853-55. In the period up to Albert's death in 1861 Balmoral becomes the setting for many of the Royal couple's happiest moments as they revel in the beauties of the scenery, relish the picturesque pageantry of Highland life, enjoy their incognito expeditions into the surrounding country, and - in Albert's case - discover a passionate enthusiasm for deer-stalking. After the Prince Consort's death Balmoral becomes a mausoleum of memories, but also a source of strength enabling the Queen to survive her devastating loss. About the time of the Golden Jubilee of 1887 there is an Indian summer, with members of the Queen's extensive family rallying round and dances and entertainments displacing some of the black-crepe gloom. In 1896 there is the colorful visit of the Tsar, with his wife and daughter. The closing section links Victorian Balmoral with the life of the Castle today.
Author: Alistair Deayton
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445623765
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Built in 1949 in Southampton for the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., MV Balmoral operated in their Red Funnel fleet for twenty years. In conjunction with her stable-mate, the paddle steamer Waverley, she also operates on the Clyde, the Thames, North Wales and from Southampton and the South Coast.
Author: Chris McGeorge
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593544145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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The Crown meets Clue in this delightful locked-room mystery, sure to charm Agatha Christie fans and keep readers guessing to the end. The king is dead. The killer is in the family. Solving this murder will be a royal pain. The royal family has gathered at their Scottish retreat, Balmoral Castle, for a traditional Christmas. As a blizzard gathers outside and a delicious dinner is prepared, the family circles up for a holiday toast. King Eric has something momentous to say—in fact, he is about to name his successor. But as he raises a glass of his favorite whiskey, he drops dead. The king has been poisoned, someone in the family must have done it, and each one of them had opportunity and motive. Eric’s beloved head chef, Jonathan, must now play detective. Why would one of the king's own family members want to kill him, and how did they do it? What happens in the castle usually stays in the castle, but this secret might be too big for these battlements. Jon is determined to expose the truth, even if it puts him in a killer’s crosshairs—and shakes the entire monarchy to its core.
Author: Frank Pope Humphrey (pseud.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: James Alder
Publisher: Northumbria University Press
ISBN: 1904794017
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A beautiful collection of fifty watercolors commissioned and approved by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Author: Alanna Knight
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 0749017260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Rose McQuinn is invited to stay with her friend Olive, who has a small cottage on the Balmoral Estate. As Rose travels on the train with her trusty dog Vane and her niece Mabel, she wonders what exciting adventures await them at the Royal household. Little does she realise that within just 48 hours of their arrival, death will have visited the great castle . can Rose find out what happened and prevent any more bloodshed?
Author: Robert Ratcliffe Taylor
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039184545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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In 1860, Cary Castle was built by George Hunter Cary in Victoria, the bustling Gold Rush capital of Vancouver Island. Cary was the brilliant “Boy Attorney-General,” unethical, unpopular and mentally disturbed—one of the colony’s vivid early characters. In 1865 Governor Arthur Kennedy forced the parsimonious Legislative Assembly to purchase the mansion as Vancouver Island’s Government House. After 1871, it became the vice-regal residence of the new province of British Columbia which it remained until it burned down in 1899. Defectively built and uncomfortable to live in, prone to drafts, fires and water leakage, it nevertheless reflected the character and heritage of Victoria and played an important role in the history of the province and Canada. The venue of elegant social events, as well as personal dramas, the mansion hosted British royalty, governors general, naval officers and local political leaders, and could have become a Canadian historic site. Cary Castle was also a family home for vice-regal couples where babies were born, boys slid down the bannister in the main hall, nasty diseases were endured and the Chinese “help’ was indispensable. Based on personal memoirs and letters, government documents, newspaper articles, photographs and plans, this book recreates how that idiosyncratic mansion looked and even smelled. Professor Martin Segger described Dr. Taylor’s earlier study, The Birdcages. British Columbia’s First Legislative Buildings (Friesen, 2020), as “a significant contribution, [with] fascinating detail, [and] a highly readable writing style.” (Ormsby Review, April 22, 2020) Between Heaven and Balmoral expands the picture of colonial Victoria developed in The Birdcages and will appeal to readers interested in Victoria’s history, especially its early social and architectural development.
Author: John Tulloch
Publisher:
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Alexander MACALISTER (Poetical Writer.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Author: Karen Stanley
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480997714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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This book is about nobody in particular, but maybe there is a little fragment of all us in there somewhere! Kaz is a frustrated, slightly scatty, mobile hairdresser who careens through life, forced to watch endless, often seemingly pointless, daytime TV and shares inconsequential chit-chat with her colourful client list, fuelled by the odd glug of Chardonnay! Her family is more than a little dysfunctional and her love life is little more than dysfunctional. Kaz and her best friend Mags are on a mission to compile a list of their Top Ten “you couldn’t make it up” moments and just lately the “moments” seem to be coming thick and fast…..
