TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cadbury,Deborah
TI  - Queen Victoria's matchmaking: the royal marriages that shaped Europe 
SN  - 9781408852828 (hbk.) :
AV  - DA554 
U1  - 941.081 CAD 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Victoria,
KW  - Marriages of royalty and nobility
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Maps and text on lining papers; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over 30 grandchildren and to maintain and increase royal power in Europe, she knew she had to manoeuvre them into a series of dynastic marriages. In her sights was royalty from across the world. Yet for all their seeming obedience, her grandchildren often had plans of their own, plans fuelled by strong wills and romantic hearts. Her matchmaking plans were only further complicated by their coinciding with tumultuous international upheavals; revolution and war were in the air and after her death, her most carefully laid plans fell to ruin. This book travels through the most glittering, decadent palaces of Russia and Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions, to enthralling effect
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