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Despite this lapse, gill's research makes this history an essential guide. Gill does a very good job of delineating the childhood experiences that shaped the personalities and characters of the two protagonists in this engaging story. It sums up their... Read More
Gill lucidly outlines the complicated aristocratic bloodlines that made victoria as much a german as a briton. She gives the reader a well balanced historical review of each, as wife & husband, navigating a period in history fraught with political... Read More
The epic love story of queen victoria and prince albert is beautifully showcased in gillian gill's 2009 tome 'we two. Brown and victoria & abdul give us a queen in mourning for her husband, but who learns to laugh – and possibly even love – again.... Read More
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The book does not contain much meat, gill seems to rely a great deal on secondary sources and accounts about albert and victoria by their contemporaries more than their own actual letters and journal writings. Very disorganized writing style. A lot of... Read More
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Unlike most european dynasties of the time though queen victorias leadership was balanced by the power of parliament making her... Read More
Through excerpts from the couple’s own letters and journals and exploring their relationship with each other with their nations... Read More
I couldnt reconcile the authors view that prince albert had much disdain for women with the many examples of his love and estee... Read More
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This is an interesting historical writing showing the times and practices of victorian england in the 1800s
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- This product had a total of 1,022 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 12 2023.
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You dont have enough audio books on cds or mp3s
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It was used which is the only way i could have afforded it
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The author covers material that i never know about the relationship between queen victoria and prince albert
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I always pictured her as being stronger than she is pictured here
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I couldnt reconcile the authors view that prince albert had much disdain for women with the many examples of his love and esteem for his wife
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After reading this book i felt albert was given much more of his due for the successes and failures of the victorian times
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I dont think its a reflection of the book but more of my own personal biases
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If you are hoping for a biography that looks beyond victorias life after alberts death this is not the right one
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