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Queen Victoria (1819–1901)

Forfatter af Queen Victoria's Highland Journals

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Image credit: Credit: Charles Knight, court photographer, 1898 (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-93417)

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Værker af Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria's Highland Journals (1868) 145 eksemplarer
The Adventures of Alice Laselles (2015) 16 eksemplarer
Queen Victoria's Early Letters (1963) 13 eksemplarer
Letters of Queen Victoria, Vols 1-9 (2014) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Queen Victoria
Andre navne
Princess Victoria
Fødselsdato
1819-05-24
Dødsdag
1901-01-22
Begravelsessted
Frogmore Royal Mausoleum, Windsor Great Park, England, UK
Køn
female
Nationalitet
UK
Land (til kort)
UK
Fødested
Kensington Palace, London, England, UK
Dødssted
Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Dødsårsag
cerebral haemorrhage/stroke
Bopæl
Buckingham Palace
Kensington Palace, London, England, UK
Balmoral Castle, Scotland
Osborne House, Isle of Wight,
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, UK
Uddannelse
Privately educated at home
Erhverv
empress
queen
princess
Relationer
Prince Albert (husband)
Queen Alexandra (daughter-in-law)
George VI (great-grandson)
Duke of Windsor (great-grandson)
Queen Elizabeth II (great-great-grandaughter)
Charles Prince of Wales (great-great-great-grandson) (vis alle 27)
Victoria, Empress Frederick (daughter)
Kaiser Wilhelm II (grandson)
Queen Marie of Romania (granddaughter)
Margareta, Crown Princess of Sweden (grand-daughter)
Princess Alice (daughter), Grand Duchess of Hesse
Princess Mary Countess of Harewood (great-granddaughter)
Anne, HRH Princess (great-great-great-granddaughter)
Andrew, Prince (great-great-great-grandson)
Mary Queen of Scots (ancestor)
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (granddaughter)
Alfred, Duke of Coburg (son)
Edward VII, King of Great Britain (son)
Sophie, Queen of the Hellenes (granddaughter)
William IV, King of England (uncle and previous occupant of throne)
George IV, King of England (uncle)
Leopold I, Roi des Belges (uncle)
George V, King of Great Britain (grandson)
Princess May of Teck, Queen Mary of Great Britain (cousin, granddaughter-in-law)
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (father)
Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, Duchess of Edinburgh and Coburg (daughter-in-law)
Queen Ena of Spain (granddaughter)
Organisationer
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
House of Hanover
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Empress of India

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I bought this small, red, hardcover at least 10 years ago and want to re-read it, having just finished watching Season 1 of Victoria on Masterpiece. The one I have is Vol. 3 so I also want to buy Vol. 1 & 2!
 
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Jinjer | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jul 19, 2021 |
Much has been made of Queen Victoria's friendships with men during her long widowhood after the death of her beloved Prince Albert. Until reading this book, I did not know that her Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson was one of them. While they did not have the frequent close contact of John Brown, Queen Victoria enjoyed an emotional and spiritual connection with Tennyson. Initially chosen by Prince Albert to be Poet Laureate, Tennyson offered the grief-stricken widow what she felt was true sympathy throughout her life. The Duke of Argyll, a mutual friend, facilitated their first meeting and Tennyson was as moved by her loss as she was by his poetry.

Queen Victoria invited Tennyson to return to Osborne with his family, who met hers. In her own words, she "was struck with the greatness and largeness of his mind, under a certainly rough exterior." For his part, his wife recorded, "A. was delighted with the breadth and freedom and penetration of her mind. One felt that no false thing could stand before her. We talked of all things in heaven and earth it seemed to me."

Through subsequent meetings, they shared a sense of humour and a "natural" directness of manner. Their friendship grew further after the death of John Brown, and the queen began to write to Tennyson herself -- in the first person, as "it is so difficult to express feelings in the third person." He acknowledged in person how alone she was on that "terrible height" of the throne. Their sympathy deepened with the shared loss of grown children during their long correspondence.

While Queen Victoria and Tennyson are identified as the book's authors, this vintage collection includes other letters from their families, and is aptly edited by Hope Dyson and Charles Tennyson. As they say in their introduction, they offer "a much more complete picture of the remarkable friendship which developed between the Queen and her Poet Laureate, two of the most extraordinary personalities of an extraordinary age."
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VanessaWinn | Jan 19, 2021 |
I bought this small, red, hardcover at least 10 years ago and want to re-read it, having just finished watching Season 1 of Victoria on Masterpiece. The one I have is Vol. 3 so I also want to buy Vol. 1 & 2!
 
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Jinjer.Hundley | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 24, 2018 |
I wish that some of the more significant details of the journals and letters were better highlighted amongst the day to day entries.
 
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pussreboots | Oct 7, 2014 |

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Medlemmer
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Popularitet
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Vurdering
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Anmeldelser
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ISBN
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