Charting the lives of Queen Victoria's five daughters, this book closely examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother and married off as much for political considerations as for love. Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice would come to share many of the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by nineteenth-century women of far less-exulted class, before finally being passed over entirely with the accession of their brother Bertie to the throne. Principally researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa.
- ISBN10 0312244967
- ISBN13 9780312244965
- Publish Date 23 December 1999 (first published 1 November 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Edition St Martin's Griffin ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 370
- Language English