Title:
Prince Albert : the man who saved the monarchy / A.N. Wilson.
Author:
Wilson, A. N., 1950- author.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
©2019
Call Number:
DA559.A1 W55 2019
Abstract:
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.
Prince Albert was the love of Queen Victoria's life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children. While Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, its values, and its paradoxes, Wilson argues that it was Prince Albert who was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain's transformation as a vibrant and extraordinary center of political, technological, scientific, and intellectual advancement. Through Victoria, Albert and her German advisers pioneered the idea of the modern constitutional monarchy. As a Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Albert proposed an extensive reorganization of university life in Britain. -- adapted from jacket
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Edition:
First U.S. edition.
ISBN:
9780062749550
Physical Description:
xvii, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Atlantic Books" -- Title page verso.
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Contents:
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.
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