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A magnificent obsession Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy

This title examines the circumstances leading up to Prince Albert's death, the ritual of his funeral and obsequies and offers new theories on what killed him.

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  • "This title examines the circumstances leading up to Prince Albert's death, the ritual of his funeral and obsequies and offers new theories on what killed him."@en
  • "As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband ' a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy. After the untimely death of Prince Albert, the queen and her nation were plunged into a state of grief so profound that this one event would dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy. For Britain had not just lost a prince: during his twenty year marriage to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert had increasingly performed the function of King in all but name. The outpouring of grief after Albert's death was so extreme, that its like would not be seen again until the death of Princess Diana 136 years later. Drawing on many letters, diaries and memoirs from the Royal Archives and other neglected sources, as well as the newspapers of the day, Rappaport offers a new perspective on this compelling historical psychodrama--the crucial final months of the prince's life and the first long, dark ten years of the Queen's retreat from public view. She draws a portrait of a queen obsessed with her living husband and ' after his death ' with his enduring place in history. Magnificent Obsession will also throw new light on the true nature of the prince's chronic physical condition, overturning for good the 150-year old myth that he died of typhoid fever."@en
  • "Uses Royal Archives sources to examine how the untimely death of Prince Albert plunged both his queen and the nation into a profound state of grief that reshaped the British monarchy."
  • "Uses Royal Archives sources to examine how the untimely death of Prince Albert plunged both his queen and the nation into a profound state of grief that reshaped the British monarchy."@en
  • "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. This book examines the circumstances leading up to it, the ritual of his funeral and obsequies, and offers theories on what killed him."

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  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
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  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "History"
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  • "A magnificent obsession Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy"@en
  • "Magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert and the death that changed the monarchy"@en
  • "Magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert and the death that changed the monarchy"
  • "A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy"
  • "A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy"@en

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