A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy / Helen Rappaport.
Rappaport, Helen.
2012
DA555 .R37 2012 (Mapit)
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Title A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy / Helen Rappaport.
Author Rappaport, Helen.
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9780312621056
0312621051
Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Language English
Description xvi, 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number DA555 .R37 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 941.081092/2
Summary Uses Royal Archives sources to examine how the untimely death of Prince Albert plunged both his queen and the nation into a profound state of grief that reshaped the British monarchy.
Note "First published in Great Britain in 2011 by The Random House Group Limited under the title Magnificent Obsession"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index and index.
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Christmas 1860
Albert the Good. 'The treadmill of never-ending business' ; 'The first real blow of misfortune' ; 'Fearfully in want of a true friend' ; 'Our most precious invalid' ; 'Day turned into night' ; 'Our great national calamity' ; 'Will they do him justice now?' ; 'How will the Queen bear it?'
The broken-hearted widow. 'All alone!' ; 'The luxury of woe' ; 'A married daughter I must have living with me' ; 'god knows how I want so much to be taken care of' ; 'The Queen is invisible' ; 'Heaven has sent us this dispensation to save us' ; Albertopolis
Christmas 1878
Appendix. What killed Prince Albert?

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