Queen Victoria's Family: A Century of Photographs

by Charlotte Zeepvat

Book Overview

A photograph album of Queen Victoria's family exploring the lives, personalities, tastes and contributions of the Queen, her children and her children's children through four generations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750930594
• ISBN13: 9780750930598
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Sutton Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.7" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

What a photo collection!

There are certain photos that I simply expect to see when perusing volumes about European royalty. However, upon receiving Zeepvat's book, I was thrilled to find so many rarely seen photos of some of the more obscure descendants of the "Grandmother of Europe." If you're a royalty buff like I am, you can spend hours immersed in this marvelous book and its detailed family trees.

Engaging!

Zeepvat has compiled a collection of photographs any follower of Queen Victoria's family will appreciate. While many biographies display photos of Victoria and Albert, their children and children-in-law, only a smattering of her many grandchildren are featured. And rarely are there any likenesses given for her army of great-grandchildren. This treasury of snapshots, many before unseen by the general readership, is laid out in generational format. The insightful captions and copious genealogical charts in the end pages both make for easy reference to keep up with how the subjects are related to one another. In short, a very touching and well-presented album sure to please many.

Photos Both Obscure and Well Known

Queen Victoria's Family traces the photographical history of Queen Victoria's descendants from about 1840 to 1940. Some of the pictures are very familiar to any royal aficionado, but most are fairly new and show a lot of the less prominent members of the family, like the descendants of Leopold Duke of Albany, who tend to get the short end of the stick from other royal chroniclers. Its nice to browse through and because its arranged chronologically, the inherited family characteristics like weak chins and prominent eyes really jump out. It must have been difficult to tell the Waleses from the Edinburghs and the Glucksburgs from the Bernadottes at times! Its also interesting to see childhood pictures of some of today's royals. There's one picture of Prince Philip, for example, that looks just like his son Prince Edward at about the same age. Finally, this is a nice book because it helps us realize that the European royals were and are just one big extended family with multitudinous branches.

Wow! As good as it gets...

"Queen Victoria's Family" by Charlotte Zeepvat is a wonderful book, one of the best books I ever read. I like Queen Victoria very much and have already read so many books about her and her family, but this is my special favorite. Because of the fantastic pictures Victoria and her family become alive again in this book. I think there is no other book about Victoria with so many and such beautiful pictures. Besides, I can say that Charlotte Zeepvat is an excellent author, her other book about Queen Victoria's son Leopold is also great. "Queen Victoria's Family" is a must-read book for everyone who is interested in this topic. Read it, you will be as enthusiastic about it as I am.

Magnificent

Absolutely the ultimate book for photographs of Queen Victoria's extended family. Not only are the pictures wonderful but the author's captions put them in context and it is very easy to follow relationships within family lines.