Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Autor Deborah Cadburyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2018
In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain power in Europe, she hoped to manoeuvre them into dynastic marriages with royalty across the world. Yet her grandchildren often had plans of their own, fuelled by strong wills and romantic hearts. Her matchmaking plans were further complicated by tumultuous international upheavals; revolution was in the air and after her death, her most carefully laid plans fell to ruin.
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the glittering palaces of Russia and Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions, to enthralling effect. It is at once an intimate portrait of the royal family and an examination of the conflict caused by the power, love and duty that shaped the marriages that Queen Victoria arranged. At the heart of it all is Queen Victoria herself: doting grandmother one moment, determined manipulator the next.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408852910
ISBN-10: 1408852918
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 1x16 page colour plate sections
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408852918
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 1x16 page colour plate sections
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Wonderfully compelling and packed with new material - a gripping story beautifully told
Cadbury is an adroit storyteller. Her lively, colourfully written book, Queen Victoria's Matchmaking, recounts the courtships and marriages of a handful of the Queen's grandchildren . a panoramic family saga, its players by turns pragmatic and romantic, wilful, dutiful, misguided and, occasionally, tragic . Cadbury writes with verve
[An] absorbing book ... The fall of the Romanovs occupies the superb last pages of Cadbury's book ... Dynastic mergers, we may deduce from Deborah Cadbury's account, offer no defence against the whims of history. This catastrophe-laced slice of royal history offers a ripping read
Engrossing . Cadbury engagingly presents [Queen Victoria] as a mesmerising Mrs Bennet, summoning her children and then her grandchildren to Balmoral ... The stories of [Queen Victoria's] descendants are mesmerising and often stranger than fiction . From the pen of a writer of skill and style, this surprising narrative leaves you wanting more
A skilfully woven account
Cadbury's account of Victoria's attempts to bend her unruly grandchildren to her matrimonial will is the stuff of melodrama . covered with verve and insight by Deborah Cadbury in her new history
An entertaining, well-written and well-conceived book . perceptive and revealing in the light it throws on the mind and attitudes of Victoria. Cadbury has consulted sources in numerous archives, including the Royal Archives at Windsor, and has chosen her quotations with skill
In this enjoyable story for fans of royal machinations, Cadbury ably shows not just the successes, but also the damage inflicted by Victoria's single-mindedness. An instructive European history
Impeccably researched, and written with all the brio and understanding of a major historical novel, Princes at War takes us intimately and even shockingly into the human dynamics of a barely functional family at the time of our greatest peril
One of the most riveting tales of the nonfiction season, rendered with novelistic drama but deliberate detachment. The inner tensions of the palace during wartime and the inner tensions of a remarkable family make for one of the best, and ultimately most uplifting, stories of the war years
A moving and deeply researched account ... Her story is gripping, illuminating and generous in its recognition of the central, dramatic role of the monarchy in Britain's finest years
Deborah Cadbury combines the family drama against the backdrop of the war with terrific narrative verve
Fascinating, fresh insights into a story of four brothers
Cadbury is an adroit storyteller. Her lively, colourfully written book, Queen Victoria's Matchmaking, recounts the courtships and marriages of a handful of the Queen's grandchildren . a panoramic family saga, its players by turns pragmatic and romantic, wilful, dutiful, misguided and, occasionally, tragic . Cadbury writes with verve
[An] absorbing book ... The fall of the Romanovs occupies the superb last pages of Cadbury's book ... Dynastic mergers, we may deduce from Deborah Cadbury's account, offer no defence against the whims of history. This catastrophe-laced slice of royal history offers a ripping read
Engrossing . Cadbury engagingly presents [Queen Victoria] as a mesmerising Mrs Bennet, summoning her children and then her grandchildren to Balmoral ... The stories of [Queen Victoria's] descendants are mesmerising and often stranger than fiction . From the pen of a writer of skill and style, this surprising narrative leaves you wanting more
A skilfully woven account
Cadbury's account of Victoria's attempts to bend her unruly grandchildren to her matrimonial will is the stuff of melodrama . covered with verve and insight by Deborah Cadbury in her new history
An entertaining, well-written and well-conceived book . perceptive and revealing in the light it throws on the mind and attitudes of Victoria. Cadbury has consulted sources in numerous archives, including the Royal Archives at Windsor, and has chosen her quotations with skill
In this enjoyable story for fans of royal machinations, Cadbury ably shows not just the successes, but also the damage inflicted by Victoria's single-mindedness. An instructive European history
Impeccably researched, and written with all the brio and understanding of a major historical novel, Princes at War takes us intimately and even shockingly into the human dynamics of a barely functional family at the time of our greatest peril
One of the most riveting tales of the nonfiction season, rendered with novelistic drama but deliberate detachment. The inner tensions of the palace during wartime and the inner tensions of a remarkable family make for one of the best, and ultimately most uplifting, stories of the war years
A moving and deeply researched account ... Her story is gripping, illuminating and generous in its recognition of the central, dramatic role of the monarchy in Britain's finest years
Deborah Cadbury combines the family drama against the backdrop of the war with terrific narrative verve
Fascinating, fresh insights into a story of four brothers
Notă biografică
Deborah
Cadburyis
the
author
of
eight
acclaimed
books,
includingChocolate
Wars;The
Dinosaur
Hunters;The
Lost
King
of
France;Seven
Wonders
of
the
Industrial
World,
for
which
her
accompanying
BBC
series
received
a
BAFTA
nomination;
andPrinces
at
War.
As
a
BBC
TV
producer
and
executive
producer,
she
has
won
numerous
international
awards,
including
an
Emmy.
She
lives
in
London.