Coming in October 2008
The Four Graces:
Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters
by
Ilana D. Miller
Kensington House Books
The Four
Graces: Queen Victoria’s Hessian Granddaughters
is a family biography of the four Princesses of the House of Hesse, who come of
age during an era of turbulent upheaval.
Each makes a brilliant marriage that will bring her both happiness and
heartbreak. The eldest, Princess Victoria marries the handsome Prince Louis of
Battenberg, the former lover of Lillie Langtry, and must watch helplessly as her
family is torn apart by war and politics. Her three sisters make far more
spectacular marriages in the royal houses of
From such
exotic locals as Russia, Bulgaria and Ottoman Jerusalem, to the drawing rooms of
Sandringham, and the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg,
The Four Graces is told from the point of view of the eldest sister,
Princess Victoria of Hesse, who was the favorite granddaughter of Queen Victoria
of England, and would later become the mother of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, the
last Viceroy of India. Starting in
the court of Queen Victoria and ending with the birth of Victoria’s
great-grandson, the current Prince of Wales,
The Four Graces is
the story of the electrifying period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century, with its terrifying wars and astonishing progress.
Ilana D.
Miller is an Adjunct Professor of History at
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