The Prince of Wales, and heir to the throne of Britain, Edward Albert
, married Princess Alexandra of Denmark
.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Queen Victoria
Commonly referred to as Bertie, he became in due course King Edward VII
. Prince Albert purposely broke with the tradition of inviting the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord President of the Council...
Family and Intimate relationships
Queen Victoria
The Prince of Wales
was in this year seriously ill with typhoid.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Elsie, who had worked as servant to one of Edward VII
's mistresses, was familiar with wealth, though not with...
Dedications
Florence Dixie
The journey was undertaken with the intention of writing about it. The book appeared with a dedication, by permission, to the Prince of Wales
.
Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton.
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Cultural formation
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Born Scottish, with some Irish forebears, the young Conan Doyle (later SACD
) was somewhat precariously placed in the British middle class, living in comparative poverty but supported through a privileged education by richer relations...
Birth
Carola Oman
CO
was born in Oxford, the middle child in a family of three, during a visit to Oxford by the Prince of Wales
.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton.