Queen's Husband

By Jean Plaidy

Book Overview

From the time they were in their cradles Victoria and Albert were destined for each other. However the passive Albert is well aware that marriage to a quick-tempered demonstrative young woman like Victoria could result in unnecessary scenes and stormy court feuds.

And he is right. The young Queen as well has having to endure her constant pregnancies is in perpetual revolt against any encroachment on her position - and Albert is doing just that.

Despite attempts on her life and crises like the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny her family - Albert and their nine children - is her prime concern. The Victorian age is truly under way - but the real power behind the throne was the queen's husband.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099513552
• ISBN13: 9780099513551
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Arrow Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.2" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

A Great Woman Comes to Life

Too often, we tend to view historical figures as just that -- figures from the past, shadowy and vague, human but not really. Yes, they lived and died, and perhaps accomplished some things, but do we have anything in common with them? Too often, we don't realize we do. But in "The Queen's Husband," Jean Plaidy brings Queen Victoria to a lush, colourful, fiery swirl of life and being. Plaidy probes into the heart and mind of a young Victoria as she falls in love with her future husband, Albert, more every day (yes, I know, it's a cliche...give me a break!). This pair had an all-encompassing love for each other that dwarfs much of what we see today in films and yes, that thing we call real life. And Plaidy brings each emotion and feeling to the surface, so that readers cannot ignore the passion these two shared. This book is not only a fascinatingly accurate historical novel, but it can also serve as an example of what love should be between two people. If the Queen of a whole country could do it -- why not us?