Royal Romances Of To Day Illustrated Edition

Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain -- The Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia -- Queen Elena of Italy.

Kellogg Durland (1881-1911) was an American social worker and writer born in New York City. In1901 he worked for four months as a coal miner in Scotland to study mining conditions at first-hand, publishing Among the Fife Miners in 1904. From 1904-05 he became an assistant at University Settlement, New York, and went on to give lectures on events and conditions in Russia after spending a year in that country gathering information. His book The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia was published in 1908. In 1907 he had been commissioned by the Woman's Home Companion to write the story of the early days, courtship and marriage of Alexandra, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, and the same journal went on to request similar accounts relating to Queen Elena of Italy and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. He was given access to the royal courts in each of these three countries and this book published in 1911 expands on the original magazine articles. Illustrated with photographs. In November 1911 Durland committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium.

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Excerpt from Royal Romances of to-Day In the year 1907, the Woman's Home Compau ion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marriage of her whom the world knows to-day as the Tsar itsa. The following year, the same periodical sent me to Italy to write a Similar account of the life of Queen Elena; and in 1910 I was once more sent abroad, this time to Spain, to learn all about Queen Victoria Eugenie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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