Umfang:
XIV, 448 S., [8] Bl.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
25 cm
Ausgabe:
1. U.S. ed.
ISBN:
9780345461957
Originaltitel:
Becoming queen
Anmerkung:
Originally published as: Becoming queen. London : Hutchinson, 2008
,
Literaturverz. S. [421] - 429
,
PART ONE: 1796-1817 Charlotte: The Queen Who Never Was -- "The Most Distressing Feelings of My Heart" -- "I Find Him Very Fat, and Nothing as Handsome as His Portrait" -- "An Immense Girl" -- "Fleas are the Only Enemies HRH Has" -- The Mistress of Montague House -- Forming the Character of a Young Princess -- Sex, Lies, and Scandals -- Prince Regent -- The Nunnery --"Thinking that She has a Will of Her Own" -- Violent Orange Attacks --The Rising Sun --"The Soldiers Will Be Ordered Out" -- A Little Turquoise Heart -- The Black Sheep -- "Everything I Could Wish & Desire Collected in One" -- Mr. and Mrs. Coburg -- "Some Strange, Awkward Symptoms" -- Interlude 1817-20 Drunken Dukes -- "The Dregs of Their Dull Race" -- "As Plump as a Partridge" -- Alexandrina Victoria -- PART TWO: 1820-37 Little Victoria -- An Idol in Kensington Palace -- "The Nation's Hope" -- Imperial Robes -- Living in a Very Simple Manner -- "I Was Greatly Pleased" -- Educating a Princess -- Sickly Uncle King -- Charlotte the Queen? -- "The Queen Does Nothing but Embroider Flowers" -- "How Very Old" -- "When Nobody Wishes to Change and Nobody Wants to Give In" -- Victoria on Tour -- Victoria's Whims -- Crowds of Princes -- "I Cannot Expect to Live Very Long" -- "It May All Be Over at Any Moment" -- PART THREE: 1837-41 The Young Queen -- "Just the Sort of Life I Like" -- "He is of the Greatest Use to Me" -- Scandal -- A Way of Settling It -- Passing like a Dream -- "Monsters!" -- "An Everlasting Impression" -- "Children Seem to Literally Be Raining Down from Heaven" -- "What a Hard Task It Is for Us Women".
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780345521934
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Großbritannien
;
Viktoria Großbritannien, Königin 1819-1901
;
Charlotte Augusta Großbritannien, Prinzessin 1796-1817
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Monarchie
;
Biografik
;
Biografie
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