Queen Victoria: The Misunderstood Monarch
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
- ASIN: 1400069882
- ISBN: 9781400069880
- Brand: Random House
- Manufacturer: Random House
The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience... [Read More]
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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise
- ASIN: 1250130360
- ISBN: 1250130360
- Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, temp... [Read More]
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We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
- ASIN: B0029WRHFS
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
- ASIN: 0306810859
- ISBN: 0306810859
- Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who shaped a century. His Victoria is not only the formidable, demanding, capricious queen of popular imagination—she is also often shy, diffident, and v... [Read More]
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Victoria: A Life
- ASIN: 014312787X
- ISBN: 014312787X
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
“[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography.” —The Guardian (London)When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was the mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children’s marriages. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, an ... [Read More]
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Queen Victoria: Icon Of An Era
- ASIN: B06W2MVP6P
- Manufacturer: Make Profits Easy LLC
When we think of Queen Victoria, whose reign eclipsed that of every British king and queen before her, we imagine the Widow of Windsor, reclusive in her palace, draped in permanent mourning for her beloved husband, Albert, the Prince Consort, who died in 1861. But this book takes the reader on a journey that starts before her marriage, before she c... [Read More]
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Queen Victoria's Gene (Pocket Biographies)
- ASIN: 0750911999
- ISBN: 0750911999
- Brand: The History Press
- Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
- ASIN: B072V66RZG
- Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power, she was determined to maneuver them into a series of dynastic ... [Read More]
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The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
- ASIN: 0312376987
- ISBN: 0312376987
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother---a powerful and insightful look into two women of signi?cant importance and in?uence in world history.Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and Victoria came to d... [Read More]
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Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: A Novel (Six Tudor Queens)
- ASIN: 1101966505
- ISBN: 1101966505
- Brand: BALLANTINE
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII’s wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weir brings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragon, Henry’s first, devoted, and “true” queen. ... [Read More]
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Queen Victoria: The Definitive Biography of England's Famous Ruler (A Harvest / HBJ Book)
- ASIN: 015675696X
- ISBN: 015675696X
- Manufacturer: Harcourt
This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.” “One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time” (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.
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Queen Victoria: A Life From Beginning to End (Royalty Biography Book 1)
- ASIN: B01LZUEHA3
Queen VictoriaThe Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for 63 years, the mother of nine children and grandmother to 42, Queen Victoria’s life was one of magnificent proportions. Victoria’s childhood was difficult and lonely but from the time she took the throne aged just eighteen she blossomed into a powerful woman, both frivolous and formidable.... [Read More]
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Queen Victoria's Little Wars
- ASIN: 0393302350
- ISBN: 0393302350
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
"Tells all the old stories of imperial heroism con brio." ―Noel Annan, New York Review of Books From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or... [Read More]
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The Personal Life of Queen Victoria
- ASIN: B01LBK1KAG
- Manufacturer: Endeavour Compass
“The Queen of England, the Empress of India, the Woman of the world.”In The Personal Life of Queen Victoria Sarah A Tooley narrates the intimate events in the monarch’s life in order to reveal the personal history and character of the Queen.First published in 1897 to coincide with Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Tooley illustrates the wom... [Read More]
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The Illustrated Queen Victoria
- ASIN: 155584295X
- ISBN: 155584295X
- Manufacturer: Weindenfeld & Nicholson
Traces the life of the Queen, describes her personal relationships, and discusses her influence on British history
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Queen Victoria's Grandsons (1859-1918)
- ASIN: 1505885817
- ISBN: 1505885817
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Born into eight very different families, the upbringing and fortunes of Queen Victoria's grandsons varied widely. Some died in childhood, some were killed in action, and others lived to see grandchildren of their own. There were heroes and villains, valiant soldiers and dissipated youths, but their lives were interconnected through the tiny Queen f... [Read More]
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Queen Victoria (Essential Biographies)
- ASIN: 0752450611
- ISBN: 0752450611
- Manufacturer: The History Press
Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 on the death of her uncle William Iv. In 1840, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and for the next twenty years they were inseparable. Their descendants were to succeed to most of the thrones of Europe. This biography provides an assessment of the monarch.
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of US Presidents Book 16)
- ASIN: B01GZQQG2S
Abraham Lincoln's determination to hold the North and South together would ultimately lead to the bloodiest war in American history, the abolition of slavery, and his own untimely death from an assassin’s bullet. But to see Lincoln solely as a tragic figure consumed with the strife of mid-nineteenth century America is to miss meeting him as a man... [Read More]
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Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
- ASIN: 1845113454
- ISBN: 1845113454
- Brand: Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Manufacturer: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Queen Victoria fell in love with the Riviera when she discovered it on her first visit to Menton in 1882 and her enchantment with this ‘paradise of nature' endured for almost twenty years. Victoria's visits helped to transform the French Riviera by paving the way for other European royalty, the aristocracy and the very rich, who were to turn it i... [Read More]
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Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria
- ASIN: B00PUEPCGS
- Manufacturer: Thistle Publishing
'It is excellent news that Theo Aronson's lively panorama of European royalties is to be republished. Skilfully interwoven with each other, Theo Aronson's accounts of these reigns, abdications and exiles capture the scope and variety of what Victoria used to call the Royal Mob.'Elizabeth LongfordEver since the instant success of his first book The ... [Read More]
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