Author: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
These journals cover the period from 1848 to 1882 provide a fascinating insight into the days she spent with her family in her much beloved Scottish Highlands. They provide a rare opportunity into the thoughts and reflections of the wife and mother who wore the Imperial crown.
Queen Victoria's Highland Journals
Author: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
These journals cover the period from 1848 to 1882 provide a fascinating insight into the days she spent with her family in her much beloved Scottish Highlands. They provide a rare opportunity into the thoughts and reflections of the wife and mother who wore the Imperial crown.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
These journals cover the period from 1848 to 1882 provide a fascinating insight into the days she spent with her family in her much beloved Scottish Highlands. They provide a rare opportunity into the thoughts and reflections of the wife and mother who wore the Imperial crown.
Our Life in the Highlands
Author: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Victoria the Queen
Author: Julia Woodlands Baird
Publisher:
ISBN: 1400069882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight
Publisher:
ISBN: 1400069882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight
Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In)
Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525434429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearestcompanion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves—Prince Albert and John Brown—Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen’s teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria’s long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul’s devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an extraordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525434429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearestcompanion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves—Prince Albert and John Brown—Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen’s teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria’s long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul’s devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an extraordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen.
Queen Victoria's Highland Journals
Author: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780600594574
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780600594574
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, From 1848 to 1861
Author: Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This published work was part of a journal written by the late Queen Victoria of Britain. It specifically focuses on her life period whenever she spent her time in the Scottish Highlands with her family and friends. Of note is the extensive detail of all the places the Queen visited and even the things she carry along with her in her travels.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This published work was part of a journal written by the late Queen Victoria of Britain. It specifically focuses on her life period whenever she spent her time in the Scottish Highlands with her family and friends. Of note is the extensive detail of all the places the Queen visited and even the things she carry along with her in her travels.
Queen Victoria's Highland Journals
Author: David Duff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780030598289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780030598289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Victoria's Daughters
Author: Jerrold M. Packard
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429964901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The story of five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time. Vicky, Alice, Helena, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would curiously come to share many of the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by nineteenth-century women of less-exulted class. Victoria and Albert's precocious firstborn child, Vicky, wed a Prussian prince in a political match her high-minded father hoped would bring about a more liberal Anglo-German order. That vision met with disaster when Vicky's son Wilhelm-- to be known as Kaiser Wilhelm-- turned against both England and his mother, keeping her out of the public eye for the rest of her life. Gentle, quiet Alice had a happier marriage, one that produced Alexandra, later to become Tsarina of Russia, and yet another Victoria, whose union with a Battenberg prince was to found the present Mountbatten clan. However, she suffered from melancholia and died at age thirty-five of what appears to have been a deliberate, grief-fueled exposure to the diphtheria germs that had carried away her youngest daughter. Middle child Helena struggled against obesity and drug addition but was to have lasting effect as Albert's literary executor. By contrast, her glittering and at times scandalous sister Louise, the most beautiful of the five siblings, escaped the claustrophobic stodginess of the European royal courts by marrying a handsome Scottish commoner, who became governor general of Canada, and eventually settled into artistic salon life as a respected sculptor. And as the baby of the royal brood of nine, rebelling only briefly to forge a short-lived marriage, Beatrice lived under the thumb of her mother as a kind of personal secretary until the queen's death. Principally researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-- and entertainingly written by an experienced biographer whose last book concerned Victoria's final days-- Victoria's Daughters closely examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and finally passed over entirely with the accession of their n0 brother Bertie to the throne. Packard provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as daughters of their time.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429964901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The story of five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time. Vicky, Alice, Helena, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would curiously come to share many of the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by nineteenth-century women of less-exulted class. Victoria and Albert's precocious firstborn child, Vicky, wed a Prussian prince in a political match her high-minded father hoped would bring about a more liberal Anglo-German order. That vision met with disaster when Vicky's son Wilhelm-- to be known as Kaiser Wilhelm-- turned against both England and his mother, keeping her out of the public eye for the rest of her life. Gentle, quiet Alice had a happier marriage, one that produced Alexandra, later to become Tsarina of Russia, and yet another Victoria, whose union with a Battenberg prince was to found the present Mountbatten clan. However, she suffered from melancholia and died at age thirty-five of what appears to have been a deliberate, grief-fueled exposure to the diphtheria germs that had carried away her youngest daughter. Middle child Helena struggled against obesity and drug addition but was to have lasting effect as Albert's literary executor. By contrast, her glittering and at times scandalous sister Louise, the most beautiful of the five siblings, escaped the claustrophobic stodginess of the European royal courts by marrying a handsome Scottish commoner, who became governor general of Canada, and eventually settled into artistic salon life as a respected sculptor. And as the baby of the royal brood of nine, rebelling only briefly to forge a short-lived marriage, Beatrice lived under the thumb of her mother as a kind of personal secretary until the queen's death. Principally researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-- and entertainingly written by an experienced biographer whose last book concerned Victoria's final days-- Victoria's Daughters closely examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and finally passed over entirely with the accession of their n0 brother Bertie to the throne. Packard provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as daughters of their time.
Queen Victoria's Highland Journals
Author: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher: Owl Books
ISBN: 9780030635496
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Owl Books
ISBN: 9780030635496
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
My Dearest, Dearest Albert
Author: Karen Dolby
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782439714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Using excerpts from her letters and diaries, this book shows the very human face of Queen Victoria, from spirited young princess to caring Queen, passionate bride and loving mother to great-grandmother of a royal dynasty who gave her name to the age of improvement.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782439714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Using excerpts from her letters and diaries, this book shows the very human face of Queen Victoria, from spirited young princess to caring Queen, passionate bride and loving mother to great-grandmother of a royal dynasty who gave her name to the age of improvement.