Victoria & Albert : a royal love affair /
by Sheridan, Sara; Goodwin, Daisy.
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BookPublisher: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017Description: 303 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780008259709 (hbk.) :; 0008259704 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 VICSubject(s): Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Marriage | Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 -- Marriage | Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 | Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 | Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography | Princes -- Great Britain -- Biography | Biography | BiographySummary: What happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live happily ever after, or did their marriage, like so many royal marriages past and present fizzle into a loveless bond of duty? Victoria and Albert were the royal couple that broke the mould - it may have been an arranged match, yet their union was a passionate, tempestuous relationship between two extremely strong-willed individuals. Despite the fact that they were first cousins they could not have been more different people - she was impulsive, emotional, capricious, while he was cautious, self-controlled, and logical. But together they became the most successful royal couple there had ever been, and this book reveals the private and the public face of Victoria and Albert's marriage.
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What happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live happily ever after, or did their marriage, like so many royal marriages past and present fizzle into a loveless bond of duty? Victoria and Albert were the royal couple that broke the mould - it may have been an arranged match, yet their union was a passionate, tempestuous relationship between two extremely strong-willed individuals. Despite the fact that they were first cousins they could not have been more different people - she was impulsive, emotional, capricious, while he was cautious, self-controlled, and logical. But together they became the most successful royal couple there had ever been, and this book reveals the private and the public face of Victoria and Albert's marriage.
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