Queen Victoria S Secrets

An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.

‘Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories’ Observer What was so dangerous about Queen Victoria’s artistic tempestuous sixth child, Princess Louise? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded f from public view for years. Louise was a sculptor and painter, friend to the Pre-Raphaelites and a keen member of the Aesthetic movement. The most feisty of the Victorian princesses, she kicked against her mother’s controlling nature and remained fiercely loyal to her brothers – especially the sickly Leopold and the much-maligned Bertie. She sought out other unconventional women, including Josephine Butler and George Eliot, and campaigned for education and health reform and for the rights of women. She battled with her indomitable mother for permission to practice the ‘masculine’ art of sculpture and go to art college – and in doing so became the first British princess to attend a public school. The rumours of Louise’s colourful love life persist even today, with hints of love affairs dating as far back as her teenage years, and notable scandals included entanglements with her sculpting tutor Joseph Edgar Boehm and possibly even her sister Princess Beatrice’s handsome husband, Liko. True to rebellious form, she refused all royal suitors and became the first member of the royal family to marry a commoner since the sixteenth century. Spirited and lively, The Mystery of Princess Louise is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.

This is a five volume set of English and European Royal History with close to 1200 pages and 750 colour photographs. These volumes expose the legitimate birth of Queen Victoria's firstborn son, Marcos Manoel in 1834, as the future True King of England. THE HIDDEN KING OF ENGLAND is a revelation, with many Royal Marks exposed to the public for the first time. Queen Victoria presented a chest full of Royal Marks to Prince Marcos Manoel in 1850, with strict instructions to always retain them in The Family. These were handed down through the generations and have been analysed to confirm and reveal the True British Royal Family. The name "King John of England" can only be used by the Sangrëal ‒ the Blood Royal. Queen Victoria opened two bridges in London on the same day as a Royal public Mark of the elevation of Marcos Manoel to the 'Occult King John II of England'. King John Manoel II of England was then Regicided by his younger illegitimate brother ‒ the Cain King Edward VII who died 5 weeks after the murder. Kingship is unveiled, including its many historical flaws by both Religions and Monarchies. The true nature of kingship is exposed, which reveals the Kingship roles of H.R.H. Francisco Manoel ‒ today's True Prince of Wales. His life stories definitively confirm his destiny. The lineage of British and European Royalty is then traced back to the Jesuses and Maries. The landmarks they left in the plan of London, in Temple Bar, Common Law, the Greenwich Observatory and Greenwich Mean Time are revealed. Jesus' gravesites are exposed with confirming buildings, measurements and history. A Second Jesus is revealed showing his Villa's allusion to Luxor, his temple, his Mausoleum, his further resting places and confirming religious practises today. His remains were presented to Prince le Favori Marcos Manoel in 1850 as a Kingmaking Mark of his future Kingship. From these two Jesuses, the true religion of the British Monarchy is exposed rendering these Five Volumes part of the Revelation, known in Biblical terms as "The Apocalypse".

This compact book explodes with over ninety images of Victorian debauchery, combined with an elegant, but deliciously dirty text by Dr. Christopher Hart that investigates every nook and cranny of the pulsating underbelly of that proud, upstanding era. A truly Dickensian treat!

Brand new from the bestselling team behind Horrible Histories! It's time to delve into the totally true (sort of) and incredibly intriguing pages of Queen Victoria's Secret Diary. Horrible Histories' Secret Diaries of the most extraordinary (and Horrible) characters of all time will blow your mind.

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The intensely revealing and entertaining account of a great royal secret and hidden love story - an unbuttoned history of Queen Victoria's loves and intrigues.