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Queen Victoria (Paperback)
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Queen Victoria (Paperback)
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On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the
Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had
hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and
vehement, she had always longed for liberty; and she had never
possessed it. She had been brought up among violent family
quarrels, had been early separated from her disreputable and
eccentric mother, and handed over to the care of her disreputable
and selfish father. When she was seventeen, he decided to marry her
off to the Prince of Orange; she, at first, acquiesced; but,
suddenly falling in love with Prince Augustus of Prussia, she
determined to break off the engagement. This was not her first love
affair, for she had previously carried on a clandestine
correspondence with a Captain Hess. Prince Augustus was already
married, morganatically, but she did not know it, and he did not
tell her. While she was spinning out the negotiations with the
Prince of Orange, the allied sovereign - it was June, 1814 -
arrived in London to celebrate their victory. Among them, in the
suite of the Emperor of Russia, was the young and handsome Prince
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. ...] Reprint of the biography of Queen
Victoria, originally published in 1921.
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