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Gillian Gill offers a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, revealing at once both an intimate but far-from-idyllic relationship that succeeded against all odds as the strong, feisty queen and the brilliant, fragile prince worked together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity.… (més)
I did not know much about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and I am glad I read this book. The author was very good at painting a complex picture. They both accomplished a lot of good in their lifetimes, but the author shows them as very human with all their faults. ( )
A well-written, engaging look at the marriage of Victoria and Albert. I thoroughly enjoyed it. However, if royal excess makes you impatient, you might not. I was struck by what sad lives they had. ( )
I'm not really sure if this book covered much new ground...I thought it was going to paint a different picture of Victoria than the one of her staying at home while her husband ran the country. ( )
In We Two, Gillian Gill describes Victoria and Albert's tempestuous yet successful marriage, and the real story behind the powerful couple whom she describes as rulers, partners and rivals.
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A cat may look at a king
—OLD ENGLISH PROVERB
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For Rose WHO LIVES ON IN MY DREAMS
and For All My Grandchildren
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Prelude to a Marriage Windsor Castle, October 10, 1839
All afternoon Queen Victoria has been expecting the arrival of her cousin Albert, and she was getting edgier by the minute. Louis XIV had never had to wait, yet here she was, monarch to an empire that put the Sun King's France to shame, cooling her heels until some third-rank German prince arrived and she could go in for dinner. As all the courts of Europe knew, Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, dutifully chaperoned by his elder brother, Ernest, was coming to Windsor so that the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland could look him over and decide if she wanted to marry him. How dare that young man be late?
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If the marriage of Victoria and Albert was as much a power struggle as a love story, then Victoria proved to be the stronger. If their partnership was also a contest, then she was the winner. She took possession of the prince in death as he had taken possession of her in life. In her black dress and widow's cap, she lived to play the tragedy queen, Victoria, Regina et Imperatrix, for forty more years. Albert had staked his life on becoming the Eminent Victorian, and yet he would find no place in Lytton Strachey's famous book. His was the tragic role. The power and the glory were hers.
Gillian Gill offers a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, revealing at once both an intimate but far-from-idyllic relationship that succeeded against all odds as the strong, feisty queen and the brilliant, fragile prince worked together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity.
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