We Two: Victoria and Albert (93 page)
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Authors: Gillian Gill
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“I can so well understand
Dearest Mama
, p. 35.
375
“I am also anxious to repeat
Benson and Esher,
Letters of Queen Victoria 1837–1861
, vol. III, p. 476.
381
Hibbert, a scrupulous scholar
Hibbert, Queen Victoria, chapter 42, “John Brown,” especially pp. 321–323.
381
Longford declared
Victoria R.I
, p. 417.
381
Hibbert drily confirms
Thompson,
Queen Victoria: The Woman, the Monarchy and the People
, p.
77
, and Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 497.
383
Her harshest judgment
Queen Victoria reportedly told Lord Derby that the prince consort “would die—he seemed not to care to live … He died from want of what they call pluck.” Longford, quoting Disraeli, p. 391.
The Royal Collection © 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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p. 80, RCIN 605752 [detail]
p. 183, RCIN 502063 [detail]
p. 376, RCIN 405162
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bridgeman Art Archive
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The illustration on p. 275 first appeared in the
Illustrated London News
of April 26, 1856.
Special thanks to Karen Lawson, senior picture library assistant at the Royal Collection, and to Matthew Bailey, assistant picture library manager at the National Gallery
.
G
ILLIAN
G
ILL
, who holds a Ph.D. in modern French literature from Cambridge University, has taught at Northeastern, Wellesley, Yale, and Harvard. She is the author of
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale; Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries;
and
Mary Baker Eddy
. She lives in suburban Boston.
Copyright © 2009 by Gillian Gill
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We two : Victoria and Albert Rulers, partners, rivals / Gillian Gill.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-51492-9
1. Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901—Marriage.
2. Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861—Marriage.
3. Queens—Great Britain—Biography.
4. Princes—Great Britain—Biography. I. Title.
DA554.G55 2009
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Frontispiece and pages 15, 89, and 145: Art features details from
Modern Times at Windsor Castle
by Sir Edwin Landseer
.
The Royal Collection © 2008 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
.
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