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Title: Uncrowned King : The Life of Prince Albert by Stanley Weintraub ISBN: 0-7432-0609-6 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Just absolutely stunning!
Comment: After seeing the A&E production of "Victoria and Albert," I was curious to know more about the lives of the said characters (I'm also a history major so that helps, too). I was browsing through my university's library to find this book on Prince Albert and I read it. I just finished reading it today and wow, this is a stellar book. It's so comprehensive that my mind almost exploded while reading it. There were some minor details that could've been left out, hence the four star rating. I plan to read more about Victoria and Albert in the future. So take my advice. Treat yourself to this wonderful book and put it in your personal library. I'll be sure to buy this book when I have the chance.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good covering of a neglected life.
Comment: I questioned myself before i picked up this book in the library; brought up as a good Englishman, i already knew all i wanted or needed about the Prince Consort, and was unimpressed with it, nor did i care to learn any more. Now i see i was quite correct in my questioning, and i'm afraid i may have to change my long-held, and therefore cherished, beliefs about him. Darn intellectual honesty, anyway! Weintraub's Albert was a responsible, educated, thinking man, thrust into a situation both wonderful and intolerable (his marriage and lack of acceptance in England, respectively). Weintraub shows him as having enjoyed the one side and, through hard work and dedication, partially overcome the other. One is left to wonder, as Weintraub indeed does, what would the monarchy be today had Albert lived as long as Victoria. Surely there would be some differences. On the basis of this book, it is not fair to say (as a previous reviewer did) that Albert laid the foundation for the pax Britannica; he did, however, through his fecundity, insight into both politics and industry, and though a great deal of hard work, aid the shaping of Europe through the First World War. As i look back now, it is hard for me exactly to define just why i have disliked His Royal Highness; i suspect it has to do with his rather poor treatment of his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, which Weintraub does not gloss over, but implies was deserved; also the wreck Victoria made of her life after he died, which really can't be laid at his door; also, though i am probably of the last generation to instinctively feel nothng good can come from Germany, the man was a German (though not a Prussion, at least). Two hundred plus years of racial dislike are hard to overcome. I would not say that i have yet overcome them; Weintraub has helped me see with a clearer vision, though.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Prince Consort, who really should have been king.
Comment: At a time when marriages of royals were political matches, and not romantic ones, this is a story of an insignificant German prince who is married to the very young, Queen of England. Victoria and Albert actually fall in love with each other. Unfortunately, physicians at the time did not know when human females ovulated, which resulted in the many children of Victoria and Albert. However, her numerous pregnancies allowed Albert to become a more integral part in the monarchy. He became King in all but name as Victoria retired to the "sidelines." His diligent, untiring work set the stage for the great Victorian Era and the Pax Britannia.
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Title: Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0306810859 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Edward the Caresser: The Playboy Prince Who Became Edward VII by Stanley Weintraub ISBN: 0684853183 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 23 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Queen Victoria's Family: A Century of Photographs 1840-1940 by Charlotte Zeepvat ISBN: 0750930594 Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Disraeli: A Biography by Stanley Weintraub ISBN: 0525936688 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Last Days of Glory : The Death of Queen Victoria by Tony Rennell ISBN: 0312276729 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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