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Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia and German Empress, was married to Wilhelm II, the Kaiser who led Germany into the disaster of the First World War. I have to mark down the audio version for two reasons: (1) The producers chose to interrupt the narration to announce any new narrator's name for a "character" we haven't met before. Very irritating and unnecessary. They could have added a note at the end with the list of narrators involved in the audiobook. Especially since often the introduction of the narrator took longer than the line they actually read. (2) I understand that the print book includes some wonderful photographs. The producers did not supply the photographs to listeners of the audiobook. (Other producers of audiobooks have provided photos via Audible in a PDF document.) I felt ripped off because of this. Ridley, Jane (27 May 2017), "Queen Victoria – burdened by grief and six-course dinners", The Spectator, archived from the original on 28 August 2018 , retrieved 28 August 2018
Marshall, Dorothy (1972), The Life and Times of Queen Victoria (1992 reprinted.), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 0-297-83166-6 Woodham-Smith, Cecil (1972), Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times 1819–1861, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 0-241-02200-2
The Victoria Letters:
When the exhibition ends in November they will be opened on the 100th anniversary of Wilhelm’s abdication. Officer, Lawrence H.; Williamson, Samuel H. (2018), Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a UK Pound Amount, 1270 to Present, MeasuringWorth, archived from the original on 6 April 2018 , retrieved 5 April 2018 Queen Victoria began her journal in 1832 at the age of thirteen and continued to keep it until old age, with the last entry made just nine days before she died, constituting, therefore, a remarkable royal record. She took her journal with her wherever she went on her travels, which was entrusted to the care of her Wardrobe Maids. Queen Victoria, "Saturday, 18th August 1855", Queen Victoria's Journals, vol.40, p.93, archived from the original on 25 November 2021 , retrieved 2 June 2012– via The Royal Archives
Duff, David, ed. (1968), Victoria in the Highlands: The Personal Journal of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, London: Muller The Queen never was a novelist of course (although her favourite novelist was Ouida, who wrote Two Little Wooden Shoes). Perhaps it is this precise difference which explains quite why the Queen wrote so much because it was not in fact linked with creative output, but a genuine and instinctive desire to write, record and express her thoughts. Paradoxically, however, it became its own form of creativity. The Queen was a profoundly emotional monarch. Her letters and journals are a private record of a public figure, symbolic of the proud, Victorian age in fact – outwardly bound – like the Queen’s journals – but once opened, gush with passionate, inner life. Queen Victoria’s writings show in fact that she was really far from ‘Victorian’; and is in many ways, the antithesis of the age she came to define. Condition: Used - Good. Spine, binding and covers all fine. Contents clean, no inscriptions other than pencil price markings. Spines all faded a little. Kitchen. Since 1714, Britain had shared a monarch with Hanover in Germany, but under Salic law, women were excluded from the Hanoverian succession. While Victoria inherited the British throne, her father's unpopular younger brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, became King of Hanover. He was Victoria's heir presumptive until she had a child. [34] Coronation portrait by George HayterNapoleon III Receiving Queen Victoria at Cherbourg, 5 August 1858, Royal Museums Greenwich, archived from the original on 3 April 2012 , retrieved 29 March 2013 The generations indicate descent from George I, who formalised the use of the titles prince and princess for members of the British royal family. Where a princess may have been or is descended from George I more than once, her most senior descent, by which she bore or bears her title, is used. The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection of Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837-1861 - Vol.1. 1837-1843 As monarch, Victoria was Supreme Governor of the Church of England. She was also aligned with the Church of Scotland.
On 23 September 1896, Victoria surpassed her grandfather GeorgeIII as the longest-reigning monarch in British history. The Queen requested that any special celebrations be delayed until 1897, to coincide with her Diamond Jubilee, [192] which was made a festival of the British Empire at the suggestion of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain. [193] The prime ministers of all the self-governing Dominions were invited to London for the festivities. [194] One reason for including the prime ministers of the Dominions and excluding foreign heads of state was to avoid having to invite Victoria's grandson WilhelmII of Germany, who, it was feared, might cause trouble at the event. [195] Shaw, William Arthur (1906), "Introduction", The Knights of England, vol.1, London: Sherratt and Hughes, p.xxxi Baird, Julia (2016), Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire, New York: Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6988-0 Example from a letter written by lady-in-waiting Marie Mallet née Adeane, quoted in Hibbert, p. 471It feels a little sacrilegeous to open such an envelope just like that, when it was sealed 130 years ago and no one even knew where it was, for 100 years,” Mr Wittwer said. Seccion IV: Ordenes del Imperio", Almanaque imperial para el año 1866 (in Spanish), Mexico City: Imp. de J.M. Lara, 1866, p. 244, archived from the original on 22 March 2023 , retrieved 13 September 2020
They include personal letters to Empress Augusta Victoria from her relative, Queen Victoria of England.
“A fascinating side dish to the delicious TV drama … a vivid portrait of the tumultuous early years of Victoria’s 63-year reign.”
Zowel de serie als het boek bestrijken niet het gehele leven van de vorstin. De ondertitel zegt het immers al; 'de jonge koningin'.
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