| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
This work tells the love story of the royal couple against the changing background of 19th-century Germany. It looks at the differing political sympathies of the couple, revealed through letters, and re-examines the prevailing view that the domineering Vicky never bothered to conceal her distaste for everything Prussian and flaunting her sense of British superiority. In many ways ahead of her time, she was something of a pioneer feminist, refusing to accept the oft-accepted maxim that women were second-class citizens. Insufficient consideration has been given to her health and the possibility that her judgement and reason may sometimes have been affected, albeit mildly, by the family's inheritance of porphyria that led to the 'madness' of her great-grandfather George III. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888.
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Victoria, Empress, consort of Frederick III, German Emperor, 1840-1901.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty.
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Empresses -- Germany -- Biography.
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Emperors -- Germany -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Tragic love story of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter and the German Emperor |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Van der Kiste, John. Dearest Vicky, darling Fritz. Stroud : Sutton, 2001. 0750925833 (OCoLC)ocm46511534 |
| Standard No. |
9780752499260 |
| ISBN |
9780752499260 (e-pub) |
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