Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
✍ Scribed by Cadbury, Deborah
- Book ID
- 110465697
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781408852835
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother
In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain and increase power in Europe, she hoped to manoeuvre them into 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.
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the most glittering, decadent palaces of Russia and Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions, to enthralling effect. It is at once an intimate portrait of...