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Advice to my Grand-daughter: Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse
Advice to my Granddaughter Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse Author:Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) These extraordinary letters -- human, warm and intimate -- were recently discovered at Broadlands, the home of Princess Victoria's younger son , the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and have been released for the first time with the consent of Lord Mountbatten and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The letters bring new light on major world eve... more »nts and on the domestic life of Queen Victoria and her vast family, from the crisis with the Prussian court in 1888 to the Queen's agonized concern for here hemophilic children and grandchildren; from the assassination of the Czar of Russia to her stalwart but fruitless efforts to persuade Victoria's sister to marry the son of the Prince of Wales and thus secure her as future Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India; from the daily life of Queen Victoria's court and family to the major public isues of the day.
Above all, however, they are the record of a touching and delightful correspondence between the old Queen and her favorite grand-daughter, full of warmth, sagacity, good advice, love and concern, and shot through with the Queen's own concerns and grief, and revealing in a very special way the full extent the full extent of Victoria's wit, intelligence and intense emotions. They make wonderful reading -- indeed it is almost impossible to read these marvelous letters without wishing that Victoria had been one's own shrewd, kind and doting grandmother! It is, quite simply, a Royal Treasure of a book.« less