Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter
Title | Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Lucinda Hawksley |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1466863900 |
The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view. Louise was a sculptor and painter, friend to the Pre-Raphaelites and a keen member of the Aesthetic movement. The most feisty of the Victorian princesses, she kicked against her mother's controlling nature and remained fiercely loyal to her brothers-especially the sickly Leopold and the much-maligned Bertie. She sought out other unconventional women, including Josephine Butler and George Eliot, and campaigned for education and health reform and for the rights of women. She battled with her indomitable mother for permission to practice the "masculine" art of sculpture and go to art college-and in doing so became the first British princess to attend a public school. The rumors of Louise's colorful love life persist even today, with hints of love affairs dating as far back as her teenage years, and notable scandals included entanglements with her sculpting tutor Joseph Edgar Boehm and possibly even her sister Princess Beatrice's handsome husband, Liko. True to rebellious form, she refused all royal suitors and became the first member of the royal family, since the sixteenth century, to marry a commoner. She moved with him to Canada when he was appointed Governor-General. 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.
Princess Louise
Title | Princess Louise PDF eBook |
Author | Jehanne Wake |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Biografie van de Engelse prinses (1848-1939).
Darling Loosy
Title | Darling Loosy PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Longford |
Publisher | London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Artists |
ISBN | 9780297811794 |
The Right Princess
Title | The Right Princess PDF eBook |
Author | Clara Louise Burnham |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2010-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1434427692 |
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Historical Calendar of the Princess Louise's 91st (originally 98th) Highlanders
Title | Historical Calendar of the Princess Louise's 91st (originally 98th) Highlanders PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Army. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
History of the 91st Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders Now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Title | History of the 91st Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders Now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders PDF eBook |
Author | John Percy Groves |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter
Title | Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Lucinda Hawksley |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250059321 |
Intrigue, scandal, and secrets abound in this lush royal biography penned by the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens.