Description
Simon & Schuster, Published 1995. Hardcover, 701 pp.; 25 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Brown paper over boards, brown quarter cloth spine, gilt lettering; mild edge and shelf wear, with a hint of fading along cover edges. Binding tight; pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket reproduces Heinrich von Angeli's 1889 portrait of the Empress Frederick; mild shelf wear, a half-inch tear to the paper at the top corner of the rear panel, light bumping and creasing to edges and corners. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. The authoritative biography of Victoria, Princess Royal (1840-1901), eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, who married Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia and became the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Trained by her father Prince Albert in the principles of liberal constitutional monarchy, Vicky carried those ideals into a hidebound Prussian court dominated by Bismarck, only to see her aspirations for her adopted country thwarted by her own son. Drawing on more than 7,000 letters between the Empress and the Queen, Hannah Pakula traces an epic of royal romance, court intrigue, war, and the creation of modern Germany.