Download or read book Henry Ponsonby written by Arthur Ponsonby Baron Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ponsonby written by Arthur Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ponsonby written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ponsonby Queen Victoria s Private Secretary written by Arthur Ponsonby Baron Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ponsonby written by Arthur Ponsonby Baron Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ponsonby written by Arthur Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ponsonby Queen Victoria s Private Secretary written by Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ponsonby Queen s Victoria s Private Secretary written by Arthur Ponsonby Baron Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Ponsonby Queen Victoria s Private Secretary His Life from His Letters written by Arthur P. Ponsonby and published by London : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1942 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen Victoria s Private Secretary His Life from His Letters by His Son Arthur Ponsonby Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede written by Arthur Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry and Mary Ponsonby written by William M. Kuhn and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique insider's view of the mechanics of the British monarchy at one of its most unpopular moments in history, based on letters
Download or read book Sidelights on Queen Victoria written by Frederick Ponsonby and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Henry Ponsonby was Private Secretary to Queen Victoria for twenty-five years, from 1870 until shortly before his death in 1895. His private letters form the basis of this book by his son, first published in 1930, recounting various episodes from Court and political life during the second half of her reign. There are moments of gentle humour in the issues arising from the matter of who was or was not allowed to take ponies out for riding at Balmoral, and in the visit of the Shah of Persia to London in 1873. On a more serious note, three chapters are devoted to the passing of the Franchise Bill of 1884, and one to the more poignant matter of Gladstone's retirement from prime ministerial office in 1894. Yet whether 'comedies of manners' or high political drama, as the author observes, these incidents 'bring out very clearly Queen Victoria's dominant personality and to illustrate so well the tenacity with which she pursued any line of policy once she had arrived at a decision'.'Although a considerable part of this book is not what is usually dignified with the name of history it is undoubtedly of the stuff of which history is made' - The Spectator '...an entertaining book which illuminates not only the Queen herself but also the tact and diplomacy constantly demanded of her servants' - The TimesSir Frederick Ponsonby, Sir Henry's second son, was born in 1867. He was successively equerry, Keeper of the Privy Purse, Private Secretary and Lieutenant Governor of Windsor Castle to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. He also edited 'Letters of the Empress Frederick' (1928), and wrote a posthumously-published volume of memoirs, 'Recollections of Three Reigns' (1951).
Download or read book Queen Victoria written by Helen Rappaport and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-05-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource covers the life, times, and relationships of Queen Victoria, providing information about her children, her personal interests, the historic times in which she ruled, and the leaders she influenced. In this fascinating guide to every aspect of Queen Victoria's life, author Helen Rappaport analyzes the queen's personality, celebrates her achievements, and details the shortcomings of her empire, both in Britain, with its continuing divide between rich and poor, and overseas, where Britain's great empire was won by repression and exploitation. A–Z entries—including topics barely touched in standard biographies—cover things like the various assassination attempts on her life, her interest in dancing and Jack the Ripper's murders, and how her husband Prince Albert introduced the celebration of Christmas to England. Queen Victoria also describes individuals such as her companion Lady Jane Churchill, her physician Sir James Clark, and politicians such as William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli; events like the Irish potato famine; inventions like steam power; and issues such as missionary activity and prostitution. It also includes bibliographies both for each entry and overall, and a chronology.
Download or read book Queen Victoria written by Matthew Dennison and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name. Victoria embraced photography, railway travel and modern art; she resisted compulsory education for the working classes, recommended for a leading women's rights campaigner ‘a good whipping' and detested smoking. She may or may not have been amused. Meanwhile she reinvented the monarchy and wrestled with personal reinvention. She lived in the shadow of her mother and then under the tutelage of her husband; finally she embraced self-reliance during her long widowhood. Fresh, witty and accessible, Matthew Dennison's Queen Victoria is a compelling assessment of Victoria's mercurial character and impact, written with the irony, flourish and insight that this Queen and her rule so richly deserve.
Download or read book Serving Victoria written by Kate Hubbard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician. Drawing on their letters and diaries—many hitherto unpublished—Serving Victoria offers a unique insight into the Victorian court, with all its frustrations and absurdities, as well as the Queen herself, sitting squarely at its center. Seen through the eyes of her household as she traveled among Windsor, Osborne, and Balmoral, and to the French and Belgian courts, Victoria emerges as more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish, more comical, than the austere figure depicted in her famous portraits. We see a woman who was prone to fits of giggles, who wept easily and often, who gobbled her food and shrank from confrontation but insisted on controlling the lives of those around her. We witness her extraordinary and debilitating grief at the death of her husband, Albert, and her sympathy toward the tragedies that afflicted her household. Witty, astute, and moving, Serving Victoria is a perfect foil to the pomp and circumstance—and prudery and conservatism—associated with Victoria's reign, and gives an unforgettable glimpse of what it meant to serve the Queen.
Download or read book Queen Victoria written by Paula Bartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paula Bartley’s Queen Victoria examines Victorian Britain from the perspective of the Queen. Victoria’s personal and political actions are discussed in relation to contemporary shifts in Britain’s society, politics and culture, examining to what extent they did – or did not – influence events throughout her reign. Drawing from contemporary sources, including Queen Victoria’s own diaries, as well as the most recent scholarship, the book contextualises Victoria historically by placing her in the centre of an unparalleled period of innovation and reform, in which the social and political landscape of Britain, and its growing empire, was transformed. Balancing Victoria’s private and public roles, it will examine the cultural paradox of the Queen’s rule in relation to the changing role of women: she was a devoted wife, prolific mother and obsessive widow, who was also Queen of a large Empire and Empress of India. Marrying cultural history, gender history and other histories ‘from below’ with high politics, war and diplomacy, this is a concise and accessible introduction to Queen Victoria’s life for students of Victorian Britain and the British Empire.
Download or read book Queen Victoria After Albert written by Ilana D Miller and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoria mastered her reign. From her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901, her monarchy was one of spectacular advances in the British Empire. Political, scientific, and industrial wonders were changing the world. Britain's influence reached all corners of the earth. But there was one area that particularly intrigued the Queen. Men. Keenly aware of the opposite sex, her most trusted advisors were men. Lord Melbourne, her first prime minister, was an avuncular presence. Then her beloved husband Prince Albert took the reins until his death in 1861. In a widowhood of forty years, her ministers were a varied lot. She adored Disraeli, disliked Gladstone, and found genuine friendship with Lord Salisbury. Then there was Mr. Brown, the Scottish ghillie who she found wonderfully attractive. Later there was Abdul Karim, the Munshi, or teacher with whom she had a motherly relationship. She adored her son-in-law, Prince Henry of Battenberg, the 'sunshine of their lives' and was devastated when he died. She also loved her grandson-in-law, Prince Louis Battenberg, who was one of the executors of her will. Those years without Albert were not barren loveless years, they were not without happiness and pleasure, even if the queen herself might protest.
