Serving Victoria Life in the Royal Household【電子書籍】[ Kate Hubbard ]

＜p＞“A vivid, entertaining and often comical portrait of life at court.” ーWall Street Journal＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Compelling. . . . The rhythm of court life at Windsor or Balmoral is the backdrop to a rich human drama, a story of people existing in uneasy intimacy with the royal family.” ー Daily Telegraph (London)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Based on the letters and diaries of six members of Queen Victoria's household, Serving Victoria offers unique insight into the queen and her court. Seen through the eyes of her servantsーincluding the governess to the royal children, her maid of honor, her chaplain, and her personal physicianーVictoria emerges as more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish, more comical than the austere figure depicted in her portraits.＜/p＞ ＜p＞We see a woman prone to fits of giggles, who wept easily and often, who shrank from confrontation yet insisted on controlling the lives of those around her. We witness her extraordinary and debilitating grief at the death of her husband, Albert, and her sympa．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る