Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy

by Helen Rappaport

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When Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died in December 1861 the nation was paralysed with grief. He was only forty-two and official bulletins had, until the day before he died, given no cause for alarm.

But in fact Albert had been in a progressive physical decline for years - worn out by overwork, stress and the exacting standards he set himself. His death was a catastrophe for the queen, who not only adored her husband but had, through twenty-one years of marriage, utterly relied on him: as companion, father of their children, friend, confidant, wise counsellor and unofficial private...

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  • ISBN10 0091931541
  • ISBN13 9780091931544
  • Publish Date 3 November 2011
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 2 May 2015
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Cornerstone
  • Imprint Hutchinson
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English