Availability
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PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780312244965, 0312244967 :, 0312195621, 9780312195625, 0312244967, 9780312244965
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Geneal. table on endpapers
Prologue: Windsor Castle -- Foundations -- The forties -- Marriage -- Death at Windsor -- Settling daughters -- Marriage and death -- Tragedy again, and leave-taking -- Canada and scandals -- German horrors -- End of an era -- After years
Packard closely examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off more for political advantage than for love, and finally passed over entirely with the accession of their brother to the throne