Download or read book Empress written by Miles Taylor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately involved with the country throughout her reign and not just in the last decades. Taylor also reveals the way in which Victoria's influence as empress contributed significantly to India's modernization, both political and economic. This is, in a number of respects, a fresh account of imperial rule in India, suggesting that it was one of Victoria's successes.
Download or read book The Private Life of Victoria written by Alexander Macdonald and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the second-longest-reigning monarch after Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria ruled at the height of Britain's power on the world stage and was a symbol of stability at home and abroad. Against this background of pomp and power, she was a passionate woman who led an often turbulent private life. Victoria was just eight months old when her father died and his paternal role was taken by her uncle Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Sir John Conroy, an ally of her mother. The two of them sought to control Victoria and isolate her from others. This is the story of the Queen of England who had to fight to forge her own way in the world, and who found true romance with Prince Albert only to have happiness snatched from her when he died of typhoid at the age of 42.
Download or read book Victoria Penguin Monarchs written by Jane Ridley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format Queen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning female monarch in history, in a time of intense industrial, cultural, political, scientific and military change within the United Kingdom and great imperial expansion outside of it (she was made Empress of India in 1876). Overturning the established picture of the dour old lady, this is a fresh and engaging portrait from one of our most talented royal biographers. Jane Ridley is Professor of Modern History at Buckingham University, where she teaches a course on biography. Her previous books include The Young Disraeli; a study of Edwin Lutyens, The Architect and his Wife, which won the 2003 Duff Cooper Prize; and the best-selling Bertie: A Life of Edward VII. A Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, Ridley writes for the Spectator and other newspapers, and has appeared on radio and several television documentaries. She lives in London and Scotland.
Download or read book Victoria Queen and Empress written by E. T. H. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Victoria Our Queen and Empress written by Laura Valentine and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victoria queen and empress written by David Campbell (of Montrose Academy.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victoria Queen and Empress written by Robert Cornelius V. Meyers and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Queen to Empress Victorian Dress 1837 1877 written by Caroline Goldthorpe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victoria Queen and Empress written by John Cordy Jeaffreson and published by London : W. Heinemann. This book was released on 1893 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victoria Queen and Empress written by John Cordy Jeaffreson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Empress written by Egon Caesar Conte Corti and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victoria the Queen written by Julia Woodlands Baird and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight
Download or read book Victoria Queen and Empress written by Neil Grant and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1970 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Queen Victoria, ruler of the British Empire for sixty-three years.
Download or read book Victoria Queen and Empress written by Robert Cornelius V. Meyers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Victoria, Queen and Empress: The Mother of Kings, the Good Queen, the Devoted Wife, the Noble Woman; The Story of Britain's Golden Era The history of a queen is largely the history of the country over which she holds dominion. In nearly every instance the woman sinks into insignificance alongside the sovereign, and in all England's gal lery of woman rulers, whether as consorts of kings or queens in their own right, two names alone stand out in wisdom of government and strength of womanhood - Elizabeth and Victoria. Elizabeth lived in the age that was gold when she entered upon its troublesome paths. Poetry and the arts made up the glitter and the shine. Shakespeare, Spencer, the great architects and more than one painter created a glory whose halo has ever rested about the brow of the Virgin Queen, though she gave little admiration for these softer affairs of life. She was of a man-like build of character, a warrior, a conquer or; she was the last of the great Tudors, inheriting many of the traits of a house not always gentle, but always strong of will. She was a young woman when she ascended the throne not rightfully hers, and all through her life she was fearful of meeting a dreadful end. She knew craft and duplicity, she intrigued and manoeuvred to gain 'her ends which were not always of the noblest. She had a childhood passion for display and splendor, while her love of dress was phe nomenal even in an age when dress was elevated to the heights of a religion. There was scandal ever ready to take her name and use it for nefarious ends. Elizabeth united her people, she crushed the power of Rome in her kingdom. She stretched her sceptre over the sea and made Spain a suppliant Where it had been an arrogant rival. She established the Church of England and placed it on a firm founda tion, and this at a time when dogma took the place of religion, and when theology turned Christianity to one side. She was a strong woman and a ruler with the interests of her subjects at heart, but ever her own will foremost with her, and herself her queen. In point of length of reign she was fairly the rival of that other queen - Victoria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Victoria queen and Empress written by Richard Davey and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Uncommon Woman written by Hannah Pakula and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Prussian Crown Princess Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter who married Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia and who gave birth to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Download or read book Goodbye to Victoria written by Peter J. Keat and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
