Prince Albert : the man who saved the monarchy / A.N. Wilson.
In this companion biography to the acclaimed "Victoria", A.N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth. "For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great empire at the height of its p...
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm |
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Man who saved the monarchy |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-395) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Princess Beatrice's war work -- His mother -- The Wettins -- Childhood: "Tout rappelle l'homme à ses devoirs" -- "These dearest beloved cousins" : Albert's first visit to England -- European journeys -- A somewhat rough experience -- Unbounded influence -- Public art, public life -- Neptune resigning his empire to Britannia -- Malthusian calamity -- Cambridge -- The year of revolutions -- Balmoral -- The Great Exhibition of 1851 : the making of the modern world -- The Great Exhibition : "so vast, so glorious" -- Stormy weather -- The Prince Consort at last -- King in all but name -- The care and work begin -- She was the strong one. | |
| 520 | |a In this companion biography to the acclaimed "Victoria", A.N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth. | ||
| 520 | |a "For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. While Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, its values, and its paradoxes, it was Prince Albert, A.N. Wilson expertly argues, who was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain's transformation into a vibrant and extraordinary center of political, technological, scientific, and intellectual advancement. Far more than just the product of his age, Albert was one of its influencers and architects. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist, and bibliophile, Albert, more than any other royal, was truly a "genius." Wilson contends that it is impossible to understand nineteenth century England without knowing the story of this gifted and visionary leader. In this sweeping biography, Wilson demonstrates that there was hardly any aspect of British national life that Albert did not touch. He lived only forty-two years, yet in that time he fathered the royal dynasties of Germany, Russia, Spain, and Bulgaria. Through Victoria, Albert and her German advisers pioneered the idea of the modern constitutional monarchy. When he was made chancellor of the University of Cambridge in his late twenties, it was considered a purely honorific role; but within months, Albert proposed an extensive reorganization of university life in Britain that would eventually make it possible to study science, languages, and modern history at British universities--a revolution in education that has changed the world. Drawn from the Royal Archives, including Prince Albert's voluminous correspondence, this brilliant and ambitious book offers fascinating, never-before-known details about the man and his time. A superb match of biographer and subject, [this book] at last gives this important historical figure the reverence and recognition that is long overdue."-- |c Dust jacket. | ||
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