Queen Victoria's Grandchildren
Title | Queen Victoria's Grandchildren PDF eBook |
Author | Lance Salway |
Publisher | |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Queen Victoria's Descendants
Title | Queen Victoria's Descendants PDF eBook |
Author | Marlene A. Eilers |
Publisher | Boom Juridische |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9789163059643 |
Queen Victoria of England (1819-1901)and her husband, Prince Albert, had descendants who were involved with the thrones of most major European countries. Descendants lived in England, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Greece, Yugoslavia, The Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, France, Canada, United States, Finland, Italy, Austria, Norway, and elsewhere.
Queen Victoria's Grandsons (1859-1918)
Title | Queen Victoria's Grandsons (1859-1918) PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Croft |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9781505885811 |
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 for whom their welfare and happiness was a constant preoccupation. As part of a wide, extended family, they lived through the halcyon days of the late nineteenth century European monarchies, witnessing the most spectacular and the most tragic events of the age.
Queen Victoria's Gene
Title | Queen Victoria's Gene PDF eBook |
Author | D M Potts |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2011-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0752471961 |
Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random mutation, or Victoria was the illegitimate child of a haemophiliac man. However the haemophilia gene arose, it had a profound effect on history. Two of Victoria's daughters were silent carriers who passed the disease to the Spanish and Russian royal families. The disease played a role in the origin of the Spanish Civil War; and the tsarina's concern over her only son's haemophilia led to the entry of Rasputin into the royal household, contributing directly to the Russian revolution.
Queen Victoria's Granddaughters
Title | Queen Victoria's Granddaughters PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Croft |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9781492905547 |
On 6th July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was 'a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park.' Her apathy was understandable - this was her fourteenth grandchild, and, though she had given birth to nine children, she had never been fond of babies, viewing them as 'frog-like and rather disgusting...particularly when undressed.' The early years of her marriage had, she claimed, been ruined by frequent pregnancies; and large families were unnecessary for wealthy people since the children would grow up with nothing worthwhile to do. Nevertheless, her initial reaction to the birth of Princess Victoria of Wales belied the genuine concern that Queen Victoria felt for each of her twenty-two granddaughters. 'As a rule, ' she wrote, 'I like girls best, ' and she devoted a great deal of time to their wellbeing and happiness, showering them with an affection she had seldom shown her own children.By 1914, through a series of dynastic marriages, the Queen's granddaughters included the Empress of Russia, the Queens of Spain, Greece and Norway, and the Crown Princesses of Roumania and Sweden. As their brothers and cousins occupied the thrones of Germany, Britain and Denmark, Prince Albert's dream of a peaceful Europe created through bonds of kinship seemed a real possibility. Yet in little more than a decade after Queen Victoria's death, the Prince Consort's dream would lie shattered in the carnage of the First World War. Royal cousins and even siblings would find themselves on opposing sides; two of them would die horrifically at the hands of revolutionaries and several others would be ousted from their thrones. They had lived through the halcyon days of the European monarchies but their lives, like the lives of millions of their peoples, would be changed forever by the catastrophe played out on the battlefields of France.Through all the upheavals, tragedies and conflicts one person had bound them together and, even when wars had divided their nations, to the end of their lives, they would look back and remember 'dearest grandmama' with lov
Children Of The Empire
Title | Children Of The Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Farah |
Publisher | Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1800468075 |
Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have described the events of their extraordinary existence, scandals, loves, triumphs and tragedies.
The Four Graces
Title | The Four Graces PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2010-12-27 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780977196197 |