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Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz
Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter and the German Emperor
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Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz
Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter and the German Emperor
About this book
This work tells the love story of the royal couple against the changing background of 19th-century Germany. It looks at the differing political sympathies of the couple, revealed through letters, and re-examines the prevailing view that the domineering Vicky never bothered to conceal her distaste for everything Prussian and flaunting her sense of British superiority. In many ways ahead of her time, she was something of a pioneer feminist, refusing to accept the oft-accepted maxim that women were second-class citizens. Insufficient consideration has been given to her health and the possibility that her judgement and reason may sometimes have been affected, albeit mildly, by the family's inheritance of porphyria that led to the 'madness' of her great-grandfather George III.
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Notes
Abbreviations used: A – Albert, Prince Consort; E – Prince of Wales/King Edward VII; F – Prince Friedrich Wilhelm/Kaiser Friedrich III; LN – Lord Napier; QV – Queen Victoria; u/d – undated (letter); S – Princess Sophie; V – Princess/Empress Victoria/Empress Frederick; W – Prince/Kaiser Wilhelm II
Chapter One
1.Wilhelm II, My Ancestors, 129.
2.Bülow, I, 1897–1903, 17.
3.Tschudi, 63.
4.Radziwill, 34–5.
5.Roberts, 14.
6.Longford, Victoria R.I., 153 (all Longford references are to this title unless noted otherwise).
7.Royal Archives, RA VIC/Y/37/4, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg to QV, 19.11.1843.
8.Lyttelton, 310.
9.Victoria, Letters 1837–1861, II, 3,QV to King Leopold, 9.1.1844.
10.Lyttelton, 344–5.
11.Poschinger, 16.
12.ibid, 18.
13.ibid, 19.
14.Kollander, 3.
15.Simon, I, 34.
16.Albert, 136, A to King Leopold, 28.3.1848.
17.Kollander, 4.
18.Poschinger, 21, Gerlach diary, 3.5.1849.
19.Kollander, 5.
20.Poschinger, 28.
21.Kollander, 18.
22.Rodd, 38. Though the date of this passage is not quoted, most biographers have assumed that the description refers to a period of study prior to F’s first visit to England in 1851.
23.Kollander, 6.
24.Radziwill, 46.
25.Victoria, Letters 1837–1861,II, 106, QV to King Leopold, 29.9.1846.
26.Royal Archives, RA VIC/QVJ/29 April 1851.
27.Bennett, King Without a Crown, 207.
28.Radziwill, 47.
29.Royal Archives, RA VIC/QVJ/8 May 1851.
30.Victoria, Further Letters, 25, QV to Princess Augusta, 19.6.1851.
31.Poschinger, 39–40.
32.Victoria, Further Letters, 39, QV to Princess Augusta, 28.3.1853.
33.Longford, 258–9.
34.Rowell, 82, QV journal, 10.2.1852.
35.ibid, 82–3, QV journal, 11, 13.1.53.
36.Victoria, Further Letters, 44, u/d, probably April 1854, QV to Princess Augusta.
37.Woodh...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Sources and Acknowledgements
- Genealogical Tables
- Introduction
- One ‘She seemed almost too perfect’
- Two ‘Two young, innocent things’
- Three ‘You belong to your country’
- Four ‘Youth is hasty with words’
- Five ‘An era of reaction will ensue’
- Six ‘Malice is rampant’
- Seven ‘He complains about his wasted life’
- Eight ‘The fear of what might happen
- Nine ‘A mere passing shadow’
- Ten ‘My life is left a blank’
- Notes
- Bibliography